"If it wasn't for this, we would all have died," one of the survivors said.
The fires, which police believe were started by lightning, killed 63 people, many of them dying in their cars.
The latest of the victims was identified as a 40-year-old firefighter who died in hospital.
Residents in some areas of central Portugal were still being evacuated as more than 1,000 firefighters tackled the blaze, which continued to rage on several fronts on Monday despite light rain.
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