FILE PHOTO: Members of GIPS, elite firefighters, speak during a training session at their base near Pombal, Portugal July 13, 2018. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal went on high alert on Thursday as temperatures threaten to beat record levels in coming days, prompting the government to warn of a high risk of forest fires in the first test of the country's readiness after the worst fires in history last year.
The weather in Portugal has been relatively cool and wet so far in 2018 compared to many parts of Europe, but the government has gone to great lengths to ensure that the fires that killed 114 people in 2017 are not repeated.
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