LISBON: More than 1,000 firefighters battled a wildfire in central Portugal on Sunday as officials warned that thousands of hectares were at risk amid soaring temperatures across the country.Around 7,000 hectares (17,000 acres) have burned near Castelo Branco, “but the potential risk from this fire is estimated at more than 20,000 hectares”, the commander of the firefighting operation, Jose Gulherme, told journalists in Proenca-a-Nova.“It’s a very extensive area with many isolated homes and villages,“ he said, adding that the perimeter of the fire was already some 60 kilometres (40 miles).Smoke and ash from the blaze, which erupted Friday, had spread more than 130 kilometres east on Saturday
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