A firefighter works to put out a forest fire in Carvalho, near Gois, Portugal June 19, 2017. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal (Reuters) - The most devastating Portuguese forest fire in decades has left locals in the town of Pedrogao Grande struggling to understand how 62 people died as they tried to flee the inferno.
"Catastrophe, that is the only word for it," said Fernando Antonio Serra Alves Bernardo, 59, who owns the Lido cafe in the town at the centre of the disaster. "This was like a war zone."
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