{"id":84141,"date":"2026-07-05T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84141"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:29:51","slug":"horrible-fires-in-portugal-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/horrible-fires-in-portugal-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrible Fires In Portugal, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/7c418c7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3500x2334+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F21%2F87%2Fac039ed519a9809830fdb0fc894d%2Fba4d78448f4c4940b3ecf7ee5f56968e\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of firefighters battled wildfires in\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/portugal\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Portugal<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/greece\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Greece<\/a><\/span> Sunday, with Spain and Italy sending reinforcements to Portugal to help battle a massive blaze burning for more than three days.\u00a0In Greece, authorities on Sunday urged residents of parts of\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/thessaloniki\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Thessaloniki<\/a><\/span>, the second largest Greek city, to remain indoors and shut their windows and doors due to toxic smoke from a burning recycling plant that was engulfed by a wildfire on the outskirts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>In central Portugal\u2019s Vouzela area, more than 1,200 firefighters backed up by nearly 400 vehicles and 15 aircraft tried to put out a blaze that broke out on Thursday, according to the country\u2019s Civil Protection authority. The wildfire had burned across an area of 12,000 hectares (120 square kilometers, 46 square miles) by Sunday, information from the European Union\u2019s Copernicus satellite mapping agency showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Hundreds of firefighters battled wildfires in\u00a0Portugal\u00a0and\u00a0Greece Sunday, with Spain and Italy sending reinforcements to Portugal to help battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84143,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84141\/revisions\/84143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}