The fire, according to Olegário Gonçalves, is burning in a brush area with no houses at risk.
The Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF) has made two tracked machines available to create paths for backfires.
As per the official page of Civil Protection, at 09:22, 103 operatives were deployed to this fire in the Viana do Castelo district, supported by 33 vehicles and an aerial resource.
