Help we bought a village! After the wildfires. One year on at Chumbaria... 

Fascinating video! Keep up the good work! I love your dogs! Thanks for saving them.

Riveting yet harrowing for you. Enjoying your videos in spite of this scary experience. All the best.

god bless you . tks for sharing .

Don't wait in the hopes that the fire is moving away from you, just get out at the first signs of danger

A beautiful video which certainly puts the words ‘accept, adjust, adapt’ to the test. It’s amazing how nature recovers with the addition of rain. I hope you have time to pat yourselves on the back and celebrate your triumph over adversity. Love the pergola 😉

We know exactly how you feel & what you have been through. If you ever need a chat we are always here. Keep fighting you’re doing ace! ❤️

Well done you! You have my greatest sympathy and admiration. We were in the middle of the firestorm of October 2017, luckily our house survived and so did we as we evacuated.

Good grief, I know it was so harrowing,but watching this has brought the whole nightmare back . Thank goodness you have been so resilient and bless all those people who helped you bring things back to some normalcy. I can't believe it's only a year and you ve done so much

Well done to everyone in pushing through! Thanks for sharing!

Sad to know 😢 but glad hear you all ok😊

What a year you've had, but it's amazing all the hard work you've done and challenges you've overcome! Glad you were all safe and look forward to watching your future videos.

Wow, you really have come so far from this in just a year! Sending love xx

Agora plantem arvores resistente s ao fogo co alguma distância da casa e deixem estradões largos entre plantações de árvores

That wild fire looked horrific. Good to know that everbody is Ok. It came so close to your home, and it would have been a terrible shame to lose the village to something so random. Well done to you both with overcoming the adversity and replanting etc with the help of your volunteers. You can't keep us Sturry Sec boys down, eh Steve. Keep the vids coming when you can. Good Luck! Chris

It is good you have bounced back. I am from Facebook group old house you posted today. It is good to see progress

I should come back- Marco

Can't believe it. How awful that must have been. Glad no one got hurt. I cried watching the video 😢... We are only half hour from you and it has been a worry with all the fires around the area. Well done for all your efforts ❤

God bless you. I just wish I could help! But I'm all crippled up these days. :(

Wildfires are insane. I always wonder how it starts apart from known ways like cigarette's butts from smokers, barbecue in the forest or even reflection of sun through transparent object like glass bottle... What's also known some black bird spreading flames in the forest. But I think for a reason

So heartbreaking. As an aromatherapist I certainly appreciate and use eucalyptus essential oil. But in Portugal it was planted way too much, it became a serious danger. Are you near Bee and Theo from the Indie Projects? They also lost so much. But are bouncing back similar to you.

Os bombeiros preocupam-se primeiro com as pessoas e respectivas habitações. Parece que foi o caso

Seria bom terem tanques ou reservatórios de água da chuva

For give me for my stupidity,, but When you have basically stone buildings, don't they survive fires like that? I keep wondering how we can build dwellings that enable us to survive the changes we're seeing.

Nao percebi se foi em 2022 ou 2023

You speak of HELL rather than speaking of faith in God who saved your home.

Anyone who has lived in Portugal long enough knows that forest fires have been a common summer hazard for decades, getting more deadly in last years, with the big fire of Pedrogao Grande in 2017 marking a new milestone: 64 people died, many were families with children trying to flee the villages by car and getting sorrounded on the roads or overcome by smoke. Google "vitimas de Pedrogao Grande" to see what happened. It was a very hot and dry day and several fires started by dry thunder & lightning and encircled a huge area with villages. Some days there were more then 50 fires burning at same time. You'll get used to the smoke and sirens as a backdrop to the summer heat. Have a plan to evacuate and know what to do if encircled, have towels and plenty of water ready, cover yourself with soaked towels and breath through wet towels. If you have a water tank for irrigation, or swimming pool, get inside it and cover your head with wet towel to breath through, stay put several hours till the smoke clears. Ask the local firefighters if there are safe places in your village, usually a new built house, where people can seek refuge when evacuation is impossible. Do not try to to drive away if already encircled and only use roads that lead away from the fire. Never drive through or close to fire. Look at maps and study ways out. My family and neigbours have lands that has burnt several times... we do not bother any longer to replant it because it costs thousands of pounds... and sooner or later it all goes up in smoke again. Sometimes it's just nature, often it's man made: just a couple of days ago some folks started a fire with a barbeque in Serta. I hope they are heavily punished. It's not as if they didn't know the risk, Is it? That's also WHY there is a lot of VERY CHEAP land in Portugal...