The bigest Avenue of Lisbon is in Flames

3 or 4 buildings in flames in Av. de Liverdade

3 Hotels were evacuated

200 tourists were evacuated


15 familys that stayed without houses were transported to a near by Theatre

40 fyer cars fighting this ...


palm trees around are starting to burn due to ... jumping fyer

its windy

wil try to post some links in 2 portuguese tv stations

Link?

How did the fires start?

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info its not ... certain

but they said it was a devolut building

and there were drug addicts inside... and started the fire with a candle...

personaly it smels bad this explanation

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there are morte than one people complaining that they went to police this afternoon to ask police to close the door from the building abandoned

and the police didnt give a cheat

is in this zone of the down town where in 1988 a big big fyre destroyed a lot of blocks

this are images from 1988

Is MSM reporting this?

what is MSM ???


red cross on terrain organizing logisitcs wit civil protection


its not controled or circunscript the fyre

we can see higher flames in the top of buildings

200fire fighters on the spot


they trowing water from the top of mechanical stairs

that part of town is very very old and all of wood


there is risk that the buidings may came down with the Eat?

that reminds me something....

very sorry to hear this... let us know what the news is reporting on this too

I was referring to mainstream media. Guess that sould really be MM

well in Portugal

the Main media tv are in direct from there yepppp...

3 channels are in direct from there

RTP.pt

SIC.pt

TVI.pt

It seems controled

fire fighters saiyng they will have more 3 hours of work

3.17 am in Portugal

Many thanks for this info, we are very interested.