At least 61 people have been killed in several raging forest fires in central Portugal, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, officials said Sunday.

In Portugal Another Season of Forest Fires For the third summer in a row, Portugal is coping with deadly forest fires. Five European countries have sent water-dumping aircraft to help.

Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 61 people, many of them dying because they were trapped in their cars when flames swept over a road.

A forest fire that’s being called the most deadly in Portugal’s history has killed more than 60 people, many of them trapped in cars they tried to escape the area. Wind, dry air, and heat ...

AVELAR, Portugal -- A raging forest fire in central Portugal sent flames sweeping over roads, killing at least 62 people, many of them trapped in their cars as they tried to flee, ...

LISBON, Portugal – As the temperature began to soar across the Iberian peninsula last week, everyone knew it was only a matter of time before fires started — they've become a summer fixture ...

Firefighters worked to put out a forest fire near Gois, Portugal, June 20. Officials are still debating whether arson or lightning set off the blazes, which scorched tens of thousands of acres and ...

Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 62 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what the prime minister on Sunday called “the biggest ...

Columns of smoke rise from a forest wildfire in Góis, Portugal, on June 20, 2017. Photograph by Patricia de Melo Moreira, AFP/Getty Images. In a sense she was right.

View of Choupana Hills Hotel after last night's forest fires in Funchal, Madeira island, Portugal, August 10, 2016. REUTERS/Duarte Sa ...