Portugal Appeals To Europe For Help Fighting Wildfires

MARCO DE CANAVESES, PORTUGAL - SEPTEMBER 16: Resident react and try to fight the fire as they see the forest lands around their houses burning at Maureles on September 16, 2024 in Marco de Canaveses, Portugal. Portugal has asked the EU to send more fire-fighting planes to help control and extinguish the numerous blazes raging in the central and northern regions of the country. Houses have been burned on the edge of the town of Albergaria-a-Velha and more than 800 firefighters are battling the fire and three others in the northwestern Aveiro district. Police have shut motorways, including a stretch of the main highway between Lisbon and Porto. (Photo by Octavio Passos/Getty Images)