At Least 33 Injured By Portugal Wildfires
(WorldNews Spain)

Officials in Portugal said 33 people were injured as wildfires continued to burn across the country on Monday, according to BBC News. Authorities requested two water-bombing planes as winds from the Atlantic Ocean revived the fires, even though nearly 1,000 firefighters were already working on the major response. `During the morning it was practically controlled but weather conditions did not allow consolidation of the situation,` Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said. Several villages were evacuated in order to limit any possible casualties in a mountainous area of the country 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Lisbon. Civil Protection said the fires were 90 percent under control...