Posted on 10/16/2017 12:19:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Wildfires have killed at least 39 people across Portugal and Spain as hundreds of blazes were fanned by strong winds caused by a hurricane, authorities said on Monday. Thirty-five people - including a one-month-old baby - in Portugal have died and dozens have been injured, most of them firefighters, during fires raging in central and northern areas of the country.
Portugal's civil protection service said as of Monday morning, firefighters were fighting 145 separate blazes across the country, dozens of which are considered to still be serious.
In the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia, authorities said that four people had died, two of them trapped in a car, as a result of blazes that were threatening inhabited areas prompting the evacuation of thousands.
Authorities in both countries said that the strong winds from Hurricane Ophelia in the Atlantic Ocean and high temperatures fanned the fires.
Investigations were also focusing on human and criminal causes, with political leaders accusing 'terrorist arsonists' of starting the blazes.
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Among the dead in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia are a 19-year-old pregnant woman, who was killed as she hit another car while trying flee the flames. In Portugal, two people died when they became trapped in their van in Chandebrito, in the municipality of Pontevedra Nigrán, and a 67-year-old man in Carballeda de Avia (Ourense) died when he tried to extinguish the flames that surrounded his house.
Gaspar said deaths occurred in the districts of Coimbra, Castelo Branco, Viseu and Guarda. In addition to the dead, 51 people have been injured, including 15 in serious condition, Gaspar said. She also said that an unknown number of people were still missing.
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“Driving through the killer inferno: Terrifying moment motorist escapes wildfires blamed on ‘terrorist arsonists’ that have claimed dozens of lives in Portugal and Spain”
wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Cal fires were started by some oppressed middle easterners....will never know cause Im sure that it would be suppressed by feds/media
Antifa
I would think Separatists first.
Antifa in NorCal
While ISIS might encourage the setting of fires, not sure how it would be effectively and reliably done over a broad area except by something very obvious.
Today's top story on Bloomberg TV News was that Pacific Gas and Electric (major California electric and natural gaa utility) was being investigated as the ignition source to some of the California wildfires and that is why its stock was down and some of the other electric utility stocks were down as well.
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