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‘The Fire Has Such Power’: Why the Wildfires Gripping France and Spain Are Off the Charts

This region is no stranger to fire, analysis shows these wildfires are off the charts. A very hot summer primed many areas for fire. When they ignited, they spread ferociously. The area of land burned in France is 40% larger than the previous record year.

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Heat, drought, burning: Why the fires in Spain break negative records this year.

·Munich, Germany
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The fires declared in Madrid, Ávila and Toledo have already devastated about 80,000 hectares and have affected more than 90,000 people.Griegos, Portuguese and Italians, the 'international brigades' fighting fire in Ávila: "Spain helped us"

·Spain
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The fires that affect the Community of Madrid keep the region on alert. AEMET’s risk map places large areas at very high and extreme levels, with particular concern for the Sierra Norte

·Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
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The situation of the fires, according to the minister Grande Marlaska, is “reasonably positive”. However, the heat has become one of the great concerns for the attempt to control the fireDirect - It is still here the last hour of this Tuesday’s fire day The work of extinction has contained the advance of the fire during the night, avoiding its entrance to the Madrid municipality of Valdemaqueda. The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel D…

·Madrid, Spain
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The Spanish firefighters continued this morning to try to control the fires that plague the proximity of Madrid, just a few hours from the arrival of a south wind that brings the risk of aggravation of the fires. The wind should change direction in the middle of today's day. It will then rise from the south and anything that has not been contained may well complicate the situation again. That is what makes so important the effort that will be se…

·Lisboa, Portugal
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The wind must indeed turn at noon on Tuesday. It "will then blow from the South and anything that could not be contained could complicate the situation again. This is what makes so important the effort that will be deployed" until then, stressed in the night the delegate of the government in the Madrid region, Fran Martin Aguirre. This day, as the day before, will be "absolutely decisive", said at a press briefing the Minister of the Interior, F…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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