Around 3,000 firefighters in Portugal are engaged to put out more than 150 wildfires raging across the country. Fifty-five people have been injured by fires in Portugal since August 9. Officials in Lisbon said, persistent hot and dry weather stoked the flames.<br/><br/>Portugal has been especially hard hit by wildfires this year because of a widespread drought. The worst outbreak killed 64 people in June, with many dying on a road as they fled the rampant flames in their cars.Wildfires in Portugal this year have accounted for more than one-third of the burnt forest in the entire 28-nation<br/>European Union.