After the fires in Ribeira Brava and Ponta do Sol, Calheta's residents have said that they have been through the fires of hell.
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In three days, the Regional Civil Protection Service has registered 7 fires. Most of them in the Ribeira Brava and Ponta do Sol area.
The parents of Darren Kay, the international fell runner who went missing in December 2022 in the area of Fajã area of Calheta while holidaying with his partner, are on the island trying to find answers as to what happened to their son.
Two Madeiran university students were kidnapped for more than an hour, threatened with a knife and pistol, and robbed by a pair of criminals, according to Jornal de Notícias.
The body of a 47-year-old man was, this morning, detected floating off the fishing port of Caniçal. The cause of the incident is unknown, and the Funchal Maritime Police attended the incident.
An individual is being sought by the police after leaving the scene of the accident.
Yesterday morning, the body of a 60-year-old woman was found floating near the port of Funchal, confirmed the National Maritime Authority.
A vessel and crew from the Porto Moniz Lifeguard Station was activated early this afternoon to rescue three individuals who were unable to swim ashore.
The European Commission has admitted the economic impact of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and floods, in southern European countries such as Portugal, particularly for tourism, and calls for measures to combat climate change.
A localised rockfall on the escarpment between the Tabua and the Lugar de Baixo, in Ponta de Sol, just after 12 o'clock, scared bathers who were on the beach esplanade and close to the site of the occurrence.
The Regional Government of Madeira has sent an offer of help to Morocco after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the region in the early hours of Friday morning, and which has so far caused the deaths of 820 people.
Luís Simões, the Regional Commander of the Public Security Police (PSP), defended that society "has to reflect on alcohol abuse."
The body of a man was found this morning in a garden located in the vicinity of the Santa Catarina Park, near the statue of the Madeiran worker.
The Recommended Pedestrian Route Pico do Areeiro - Pico Ruivo is closed, as a rockfall has severely obstructed the path, state the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN).
Between the 1st of May and the 31st of August, the National Maritime Authority (AMN) recorded two deaths in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (RAM).