Residents Return to the Site of Spain’s Deadliest Wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze as authorities investigate a suspected power line fault and foreign officials help identify victims.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro visited Turre on Monday to meet emergency services at the site of a deadly wildfire that has claimed 13 lives and razed a huge area of Almeria province near the Mediterranean coast.
- Authorities suspect a broken power line ignited vegetation parched by temperatures above 40C; the inferno spread at up to 100 metres per minute, trapping residents in their vehicles or on foot.
- About 7,000 hectares of forest and scrub land have been scorched, with 10 formal missing person reports submitted on Sunday; British, Belgian, and French officials are providing genetic profiles to aid identification efforts.
- Calmer winds and cooler temperatures allowed hundreds of firefighters to stabilize the blaze over the weekend, as Andalusian regional authorities confirmed the death toll reached 13 after a 93-year-old British woman died in hospital.
- Scientists link such extreme heatwaves to climate change, which increases wildfire intensity; data from the European Forest Fire Information System shows 400,000 hectares of land in Spain were lost to fires last year, the highest recorded.
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After the severe forest fire in Andalusia the spread of the fire at Almería is stopped. First residents return to their homes. Head of government Sánchez promises funds for reconstruction during his visit to the region. By A. Mundt.
"A third of the total area burned last year in Europe" has been in Spain, said Pedro Sánchez, in a serious tone. As a front line country of global warming, Spain has experienced in recent years increasingly long and frequent heat waves, with temperatures well above 40°C, creating favourable conditions for devastating fires. On Thursday, in a wooded massif close to the Mediterranean, the flames ravaged 7,000 hectares, within a 40 km radius accord…
The devastating wildfire that broke out last Thursday afternoon in the town of Los Gallardos, in Almería, and affected the neighboring towns of Bédar, Antas, and Lubrín, could be considered "under control" this Monday, after three days of firefighting efforts. This is the main update of the day provided by the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, who spoke from the advanced command post located in the town of Turre, …
Both leaders, in their visit to the Command Post in Turre, have defended incorporating specific training on civil protection and emergency response into the education system following the tragedy of Los Gallardos
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