A firefighter monitors the progression of a wildfire at Amendoa in Macao, central Portugal on July 21, 2019. More than a thousand firefighters battled to control wildfires in central Portugal that have forced village evacuations, in a region where dozens were killed in huge blazes in 2017. PHOTO | PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA | AFP
Planes and helicopters joined more than a thousand firefighters in central Portugal Sunday to battle huge wildfires in a mountainous region where over 100 people died in huge blazes in 2017.