Africa-Press – Cape verde. The community of Achada Galego, in Santa Catarina de Santiago, had a big scare on the night of this Thursday, 9th, when they were surprised by a large fire.
According to information from residents, the fire resulted from the burning of pastures in agricultural fields, a practice that has long been disapproved of for environmental and safety reasons.
The fire that scared the community was extinguished around 00:30, after more than 5 hours of fighting.
Support from other firefighter corporations
Cited by RTC, the councilor for the Environment, Sanitation and Civil Protection of the Santa Catarina City Council said that the Santa Catarina corporation had the support of firefighters from Tarrafal, Órgãos and São Domingos to contain the fire that was very close to some houses .
Records point to 11 occurrences of uncontrolled fires, according to the same source.
“Abnormal” fires at this time
Regarding the causes, despite what the population says, Vladimir Fernandes considers possible fires at this time of year to be “abnormal”.
The damage caused by the fire is still being quantified.
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