A 68-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday for the crime of forest fire in the locality of Ribeira de Crastos, Vidas, in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha.
In a statement released on Thursday, the National Republican Guard (GNR) reported that following a forest fire, “immediate police investigations were carried out, which allowed for the collection of information and determination of the causes and authorship of the incident.”
It was then possible to ascertain that it “was a burning of debris resulting from the cleaning of agricultural land, which resulted in a fire that consumed a total area of 0.18 hectares of scrubland.”
The GNR’s action led to the arrest of the woman, who was named as a defendant, and the seizure of a lighter.
In the statement, the authority reminded that “burns and controlled fires are among the main causes of fires in Portugal” and that “the execution of controlled fires, burning of piles, and bonfires is prohibited whenever there is a ‘very high’ or ‘maximum’ level of rural fire danger, being dependent on authorization or prior communication in other periods.”
