Macao, Portugal

Wildfires

Two years after wildfires ravaged central Portugal killing more than 60 people and injuring dozens, the flames returned. This time some 1,700 firefighters and 400 vehicles were sent out to battle three blazes that raged across the heavily-wooded Castelo Branco region, over 100 miles north of Lisbon. As a firefighter looked at a wildfire at Amendoa in Macao on July 21, much of Europe was still sweltering through a heatwave.