Spain Deploys Military Unit to Fight Country's Largest Wildfire in Recent History
More than 50,000 hectares have burned, and smoke has spread across the Peninsula as health officials warn vulnerable residents to monitor air quality.
- Spain's wildfire has surpassed every previous record, with around 50,000 hectares destroyed, establishing itself as the largest blaze the country has ever recorded.
- Official figures show that more than 150,000 hectares have burned across Spain during 2026, marking one of the country's worst fire seasons in recent memory.
- Images captured by the Meteosat satellite reveal an enormous column of smoke rising from Spain before being carried eastwards across the Peninsula and Mediterranean Sea to the Balearic Islands.
- Health authorities have urged vulnerable residents to monitor air quality as the wildfire impacts over 90,000 people, with smoke triggering breathing difficulties and existing medical conditions.
- Entire ecosystems have been damaged, and experts warn that restoring the landscape will take many years, leaving a lasting scar visible from space across Europe.
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The fire was still burning on Monday, July 27, in the Spanish regions of Madrid, Toledo, and Avila. It had already ravaged nearly 77,000 hectares, seven times the size of Paris. The weather conditions facing firefighters battling the flames were less favorable than those of Sunday, but the situation could worsen starting Tuesday, July 28, due to the arrival of a heat wave. Meanwhile, labor and political tensions were partially hindering the gove…
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Le Journal de QuebecSpain is struggling with the most important forest fire in its recent history with considerable clouds of smoke and a burning smell.
The images released by the Spanish Civil Guard show the moment when the flames reach a road in Sotillo de la Adrada, in the province of Ávila, while emergency vehicles and other vehicles move away between fire and smoke. The area is affected by one of the most serious foreheads of the fires that are devastating central Spain: between Ávila, Madrid and Toledo are burned about 77 thousand hectares. The fire of Ávila is considered the largest ever …
West of Madrid, one of the heaviest forest fires in recent history is raging.
At least 77,000 hectares -50,000 in the province of Ávila alone - burned to this day in the center of Spain because of several fires, which totals the largest in the history of this country since there are records, according to the Minister of Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, while 106,000 people remain evacuated or ... Continue reading "At least 77,000 hectares have been razed in the biggest fire in the history of Spain" The post At least 7…
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