The fires of October 15 and 16 had "consequences of a vastly greater dimension," he recalled: "We are not talking about 268 houses, we are talking about 1,483 houses."

The prime minister, António Costa, promised today to those who lost their houses in the fires of October "the same energy and the same determination" that has been in the reconstruction in the area of the fires of Pedrógão, which occurred in June.

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