Portugal: Forest Fires - Aug 2003 Updates

Reference: IP/11/1365 Brussels, 17 November 2011 - Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, and W. Craig Fugate, Administrator...

MEMO/05/287 Brussels, 26th August 2005 - Background: The EUSF was created after the floods in Central Europe in summer 2002. It entered into force on 15 November 2002. Member States and countries...

The European Commission has proposed to increase to €48.539 million Community support from the European Solidarity Fund for the fire-related disasters in Portugal this summer. This new figure changes...

LISBON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The death toll from a wave of forest fires in Portugal has reached 19 as hundreds of firefighters worked to prevent an upsurge in blazes, officials said on Wednesday. ...

IP/03/1177 Brussels, 27 August 2003 - Responding swiftly to the request made by the Portuguese authorities, the European Commission today proposed to mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund...

Brussels, 27 August 2003 - Some 355 976 ha of land had been burnt in Portugal by 20 August 2003, 301 180 ha of which was forest, according to figures derived from satellite observations by the...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE GENERAL JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY Land Management Unit SUMMARY The burned area mapped in Portugal by means of remote sensing...

1. Update on the Situation in Portugal 1.1. The situation with forest fires has calmed down considerably as a result of lower temperatures and increased levels of humidity. Fires in the Algarve...

NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) 1. Update on the Situation 1.1 Information reported by the Civil Emergency Planning National Council of Portugal indicate a slight...

NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) 1. Update on the Situation 1.1 The Civil Emergency Planning National Council of Portugal has informed the EADRCC that there are still...

NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) 1. Update on the Situation 1.1 The Civil Emergency Planning National Council of Portugal has informed the EADRCC that there are four...

Red Cross volunteers from Portugal, France, Spain, and Italy have been involved in helping their respective authorities in managing the humanitarian crisis arising from the forest fires and heat wave...

NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) 1. Update on the Situation 1.1 The Civil Emergency Planning National Council of Portugal has informed the EADRCC that the situation...

LISBON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Portugal will dispatch about 800 recently returned peacekeeping troops to help battle raging forest fires that have killed 15 people, a government spokesman said on Friday. ...

NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) 1. Update on the Situation 1.1 The Civil Emergency Planning National Council of Portugal has informed the EADRCC that 7 August...