On Sunday, Prime Minister António Costa, during a visit to the area, said that the disastrous inferno had brought "a dimension of human tragedy that we can not remember".
Father Jose Gomes, the priest in Figueiro dos Vinhos, told AFP that some locals had "lacked the support of the fire fighters, and sometimes even water".
More than 1,000 firefighters still battled to control the flames which broke out in the central Pedrogao Grande region over the weekend and spread at breakneck speed to neighbouring areas.
A water-bombing plane fighting huge forest fires in central Portugal has crashed.
As the death toll from the horrific fire in Portugal rises to at least 63, horror stories of residents trying to escape have begun to emerge.
A water-dropping plane involved in an operation to tackle devastating forest fires in Portugal has crashed, according to reports. "I thought the end of the world had come", said Maria de Fatima Nunes, a survivor.
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"We couldn't see anything, we couldn't even see the road, just the flames and the pine trees falling on the road", she said. Two army battalions were helping the emergency services. The total number of injured in the region of the fire - which authorities said was 70 percent under control - stood at 135 since Saturday.
Thousands of firefighters have been working around the clock to contain and extinguish the blaze, which has trapped people in their homes and cars. In the small village of Atalaia Fundeira, a big cloud of smoke billowed from a scrub of land as villagers including 76-year-old Palmira Coelho rushed out with buckets of water and a tractor arrived with a tank of water and hose. They included seven people in a serious state, one of them a child.
Among those killed as they fled was a four-year-old boy whose parents had left him with his uncle and aunt as they went on their honeymoon.
The global community has stepped in to help, with Spain, France and Italy sending water-bombing planes. Like more than half of the dead in Saturday's blaze, Daniel Starling had jumped in his vehicle and raced away as the flames bore down.
Firefighters work to save a house from a forest fire in Carvalho, near Gois, Portugal, June 19, 2017.
Other countries prone to forest fires have systems in place to warn people of danger.
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