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By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LEIRIA, Portugal (Reuters) – Shocked into action in 2017 by a wildfire that killed 66 people, Portugal’s government took steps to minimise the risk of a similar tragedy occurring again. But five years on, blazes are again ravaging a countryside that, with those fire prevention measures poorly enforced in forests and plantations reduced to tinderboxes by a searing heatwave and an unprecedented drought, is as exposed as ever to the risk of uncontrolled destruction. “We don’t want more people to die because of a fire,” said Dina Duarte, the head of an associa…