Amidst a massive ongoing wildfire in Portugal, a pilot has been killed when his plane crashed while on an operation in the northeast, trying to extinguish a wildfire, which is one of several burning across Europe this week.
Here are some of the visuals of planes during the operation and videos of wildfires that have captured.
More than 3,000 firefighters battled alongside ordinary Portuguese citizens desperate to save their homes livestock and precious lives from several wildfires.
Firefighters’ selfless efforts Saturday on using fire trucks to surround villages at risk and save as many homes as possible, Charles Lafourcade, overseeing the French firefighting operation, told reporters.
The blazes have injured more than 160 people this week and forced hundreds to be evacuated on a huge wildfire for a fifth straight day.
