Public the fire of Portugal, one of the most serious in history

Madrid

EFE

The fire recorded yesterday in Pedrogão Grande, in the center of Portugal, in which at least 62 people have died and 57 have been injured, it is the tragedy with more deceased in a single fire in almost a quarter of a century in the world in the world

The main forest fires in the world with at least 10 dead since 1991 in a single sinister are:

1991

October 20/22: A forest fire in the residential areas of Oakland Hills and Berkeley (California) causes 25 dead, 200 injured, destroys 2.000 homes and calcine 620 hectares.Caused damage worth more than 1.500 million dollars.

1993

July 30/31: Fourteen dead in a forest fire on the Greek tourist island of Ikaria.400 hectares of forest and farmland burned.

1994

January 22: 25 Argentine firefighters die, all but one volunteers, in a forest fire south of Puerto Madryn, in Patagonia.

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July 6: 14 firefighters die in a fire on Mount King Mountain, in South Canyon, near Glenwood Springs (Colorado), which devastates 860 hectares.

nineteen ninety five

APRIL: 29 schoolchildren die that were on an excursion in a forest fire in the Chinese town of Huairen, Shanxi province.

nineteen ninety six

October 22: Ten people die and three are serious injuries in a forest fire that extended to a town in southern Tanzania.

1997

July: 14 people die in a forest fire in the Altái region, in Western Siberia, which razes 13.000 hectares of forests in the province of Uglovsk, 900 in that of Volchíjinsk and another 1.500 at Yegórievsk.

1998

May 3/5: 19 people die in a forest fire that ravaged 2.000 hectares in the municipality of Ixtacamatitlán, in the state of Puebla (Mexico).

2004

January 4: eleven dead when they fought a forest fire in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, which swept 93 hectares of forest in the municipality of Yulin.

2005

July 17: eleven people (two environmental agents and nine members of seals) died while working on the tasks of extinction of a fire declared the previous day in the municipality of Riba de Saelices (Spain) and that devastated 11.313 hectares during the five days it took to be suffocated.

2007

February - March: twelve children of the Colombian indigenous people of the Yukpas die from suffocation in a fire that lasted for three weeks in a jungle mountain range, Iroka's shelter, on the border with Venezuela.

2010

December 2/6: 42 people die, dozens are injured, 17.000 evacuated and 5.000 hectares razed in a forest fire declared in Haifa and that affects the hills of Mount Carmel, in the largest Israeli natural catastrophe.

2013

June 29/July 10: 19 firefighters of an elite body lose their lives in the fire caused by a ray in Yarnell Hill (Arizona), which razes 3.000 hectares and 250 homes.

2014

April 12/16: 15 people die in an intentional forest fire that began on the road La Pólvora, in the hills of the port of Valparaíso, in Chile.

2017

June 17: A fire recorded in Pedrogão Grande (Portugal) causes at least 62 dead and 57 injured.