WOMAN AND HER GRANDAUGHTERS PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM SMOKE NORTH OF LISBON, 2003-08-03 (photo)

A woman and her two grandaughters protected themselves from smoke on a street in Macao village 100 km northeast of Lisbon August 3, 2003. Firefighters and residents of the village of Macao are fought forest fires in a street to street battle with a deep shortage of water on Sunday. Three more people have died in a wave of forest fires in central Portugal, bringing to six the number killed in the past week in the country's worst spate of blazes for two decades, officials said on Sunday. More than 2,800 firefighters and 400 soldiers are fighting dozens of blazes. They are equipped with 500 vehicles and water bombing planes sent by Italy and Morocco in response to an international appeal for help by the Portuguese government. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro REUTERS JR