Alfredo Sirkis

Once you have a huge forest fire like that, especially when you don't have all the kind of forest fire-fighting equipment that you have in places like the U.S. or Portugal, it's difficult to extinguish, they'll only be extinguished by themselves depending on the weather conditions.

For me it was absolutely no surprise, because I'm a militant environmentalist for more than 30 years...I'm too politically involved in the environmental struggle.