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You're live with bbc news. hundreds of firefighters have been tackling wildfires in portugal. although the country often suffers summer fires, these come amid a ferocious heatwave, with temperatures reaching 46.1; degrees celsius this week. fifteen hundred residents and tourists have been evacuated from an area around 0demira. 0ur correspondentjenny hill reports from the affected region. scorched earth still smoldering. the fire is consumed a0 miles of land for that here flames swept up the valley right up to the southern town. 0n the outskirts destruction somehow the community itself was spar...

As the resolution phase. although the country often suffers summerfires, these come amid a ferocious heatwave with temperatures reaching 46.1; degrees celsius this week. 15 hundred residents and tourists have been evacuated from an area around 0demira. 0ur correspondentjenny hill reports from the affected region. scorched earth still smouldering. the fires consumed a0 square miles of land. here, flames swept up the valley, right up to the southern town of 0deceixe. 0n the outskirts, destruction. but somehow the community itself was spared. there is a really strong smell here. it is notjust of ...

Scorched earth still smouldering. the fires consumed 40 square miles of land. here, flames swept up the valley, right up to the southern town of 0deceixe. 0n the outskirts, destruction. but somehow the community itself was spared. there is a really strong smell here. it is notjust of the smoke, it is eucalyptus and pine — those are the trees which line this landscape, and they have been consumed by the fire. after three heatwaves, the ground is now extremely dry and extremely vulnerable. it is five days since this fire started. firefighters have contained much of it but they are still battli...

Rolling ocean. and you could see it on the sky — enormous flames and lots of smoke. thanks to the efforts we kept the fire out of this vineyard. it is perhaps too soon to assess the damage done. there is a really strong smell here, it is not just the smoke, it is eucalyptus and pine — those are the trees that line this landscape and they have been consumed by the fire. after three heatwaves the ground is now extremely cry and extremely vulnerable. and with temperatures set to stay high, uneasy days lie ahead. jenny hill, bbc news. well, more than a thousand firefighters remain at the scene...

Of shrubs and trees and eucalyptus. i spoke this morning to the nearby vineyard, and they themselves, 45 of their staff thought the fire as it was coming at them yesterday, and we thought they would have lost their harvest and the new winery but they went out with water trucks and ploughs to plough the land between where the fire is coming from and where the fire is coming from and where it is going to and that happened to our local farmers who cut big swathes of land to try and stop the flames. the problem is, in the womb, eucalyptus trees have all that burns, —— in the wound. there can b...