Seguimento - Incêndios 2012

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Muito fumo dos incêndios em Fermentelos, Águeda e parece que há fogo lá perto.

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Já avistei os dois canadair espanhóis.

Edit(11:11): Mais um helicóptero que deve ter sido accionado ou está a transportar alguém, veio de este e dirige-se para o incêndio.
 
dahon disse:
As labaredas do incêndio de Quinta da Sobreira em Viseu já são visíveis de minha casa, esta frente encontra-se junto do aeródromo de Viseu e dirige-se para uma pequena área industrial.
O sentido de deslocação da frente parece-me sueste.
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Onde é exactamente o incêndio, a sul do aeródromo? a este?
Na ultima actualização no site da protecção civil refere que está com 4 frentes activas.
 
Pela precessão que tenho da vista de minha casa parece estar a rodeado por um semicírculo que liga norte-este-sueste.

E o vento não dá sinais de abrandar o que deve estar a dificultar muito o combate.
 
Incêndio de Seia está “mais calmo” mas evolui em duas frentes

http://www.asbeiras.pt/2012/09/incendio-de-seia-esta-mais-calmo-mas-evolui-em-duas-frentes/

Fumo em Seia não permite combate a incêndio com meios aéreos
O autarca de Seia indicou que o cenário no combate ao incêndio que lavra no concelho desde domingo, está agora melhor, se bem que ainda haja «locais que levantem preocupações».
http://www.tsf.pt/paginainicial/AudioeVideo.aspx?content_id=2750974

http://www.tsf.pt/PaginaInicial/Vida/Interior.aspx?content_id=2750974


Incêndios/Seia: Três bombeiros «indispostos», um deles hospitalizado
http://m.tsf.pt/m/newsArticle?contentId=2749925&page=1
 
bom dia a todos.É a minha primeira participação embora ja acompanhe o forum a alguns meses.E relação as ocorrências ativas do site da proteção civil é só para dizer que eles so colocam o que lhes dá jeito.
 
cácá disse:
bom dia a todos.É a minha primeira participação embora ja acompanhe o forum a alguns meses.E relação as ocorrências ativas do site da proteção civil é só para dizer que eles so colocam o que lhes dá jeito.
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Parece-me uma referência algo injusta... até porque a informação até é disponibilizada e actualizada com bastante rigor...

Já agora aqui fica a lista de critérios para as ocorrências que são visualizadas com mais detalhe nas ocorrências significativas:

Incêndios mais significativos das ocorrências em curso (*):
(*) Incêndios com mais de 2 horas ou mais de 10 veículos operacionais ou 3 ou mais meios aéreos pesados
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Fonte: http://www.prociv.pt/cnos/Pages/ListaFogos.aspx
 
Desde da meia-noite de hoje já houve 110 ocorrências, neste momento estão 13 incêndios activos.

O site da ANPC é um site excelente com informação detalhada sobre os incêndios, tal como disse o Vitamos existem regras para que os incêndios fiquem em destaque.
 
Para variar um pouco da eterna discussão dos meios, deixo um artigo que achei interessante (via Blogue Ambio):

How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires

The history of fire in the American Southwest is buried in a catacomb of rooms under the bleachers of the football stadium at the University of Arizona.


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Here rules professor Thomas Swetnam, tree ring expert. You want to read a tree ring? You go to Tom. He's a big, burly guy with a beard and a true love for trees.

Tree sections are stacked floor to ceiling. They're like rounds chopped from a carrot, the carrot being a tree trunk. They're the size of dinner plates. When the football team scores, they rattle on their shelves.

Growth rings tell how old the sectioned tree was. But when Swetnam holds up one, he points to something else: fire scars. They're black marks, about the size of a fingernail clipping, left by fires.

"The first time here, back in the 1600s, it looks like, and it created a wound there. Basically the fire was hot enough to burn through the bark," he says. But the fire wasn't hot enough to kill the tree. So the next few rings show normal growth.

"Until the next fire occurs, and it creates another scar," he says. "And another, and another, and another, and another, and another."

Scars from thousands of sections show how often fires burned in the Southwest. It was every five or 10 years, mostly — small fires that consumed grass and shrubs and small seedlings, but left the big Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir just fine. This was the norm.

Then something happened.

"Around 1890 or 1900, it stops," Swetnam says. "We call it the Smokey Bear effect."

Settlers brought livestock that ate the grass, so fires had little fuel. Then when the U.S. Forest Service was formed, its marching orders were "no fires."

And it was the experts who approved the all-out ban on fires in the Southwest. They got it wrong.

That's the view of fire historian Stephen Pyne.

"The irony here is that the argument for setting these areas aside as national forests and parks was, to a large extent, to protect them from fire," Pyne says. "Instead, over time they became the major habitat for free-burning fire."

So instead of a few dozen trees per acre, the Southwestern mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah are now choked with trees of all sizes, and grass and shrubs. Essentially, it's fuel.

And now fires are burning bigger and hotter. They're not just damaging forests — they're wiping them out. Last year, more than 74,000 wildfires burned over 8.7 million acres in the U.S.

That included the huge Wallow Fire in Arizona.

"It burned more than 40,000 acres in the first eight hours," says Swetnam, the tree ring expert. "A tornado of fire."

Fires in the Southwest have been getting bigger and bigger over the past two decades.

"Now the fire behaviors are just off the charts," Swetnam says. "I mean, they are extraordinary. Actually, I think in some cases, they're fire behavior that probably these forests haven't seen in millennia or maybe even tens of thousands of years."

Over the past several years, even as fewer fires have struck the Southwest, they've burned more land. The U.S. Forest Service now spends about half its budget on firefighting.

Many fire experts embrace controlled, or "prescribed," fires — purposely set fires that do the cleanup job that small natural fires once did. It takes the tinder out of the tinder box.

But people have built homes and towns close to forests; they don't like the smoke, and prescribed burns sometimes get out of control. The Cerro Grande Fire in New Mexico in 2000 was a controlled fire — until it jumped fire lines and destroyed hundreds of homes.

I talked to veteran fire manager William Armstrong of the U.S. Forest Service about that, sitting on a ridge near Santa Fe, where he has done prescribed burns himself. Armstrong says people must accept fire in their lives.

"Large blocks of forest — if they want those — then what they must understand is that fire is inevitable," he says.

He says to save forests from total annihilation — and the wildlife and water supplies they protect — you have to set some fires and let some natural fires burn.

"The choice is not whether or not these forests burn," Armstrong says. "The choice is how they burn. What kind of intensity are we going to see those burn at?"

But as fire experts like Craig Allen, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in New Mexico, are now discovering, fire is increasingly out of their control.

"Basically, the mountains in the Southwest — you can almost think of them as caskets of fuel," Allen says. "Gunpowder has been building up in these things for a century, and now it's dangerous to try to defuse."

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/23/159373691/how-the-smokey-bear-effect-led-to-raging-wildfires
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Na frente que vejo neste momento estão actuar dois kamov e um canadair.
Contudo a situação não me parece minimamente controlada.

Edit(13:10) -> O vento está a aumentar de intensidade com rajadas cada vez mais fortes, nos últimos dias o vento costumava abrandar durante o dia mas hoje antes pelo contrario está a aumentar de intensidade.
 
O incêndio de Carregal do Sal passou já por Tábua (pelo menos uma das frentes). Coimbra tem já uma homogénea camada de fumo... desolador... esperemos que o cenário de 2005 não se repita (nas redondezas pelos vistos já se repetiu).
 
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