US EditionTwo dead in Spain fire as heatwave scorches Europe
- Firefighters found two bodies while extinguishing a wildfire that burned 6,500 hectares in Catalonia, Spain, on Tuesday, July 2, 2025.
- The wildfire occurred amid an intense heatwave across Europe, caused by human-induced climate change driving earlier and more severe heat episodes.
- Strong gusty winds and dry conditions intensified the fire, prompting authorities to confine nearly 20,000 residents and deploy 130 firefighters to contain the blaze.
- Spain's Aemet forecasted 41C highs in Córdoba while temperatures reached 38C in Paris, and France marked its second-hottest June since 1900 amid widespread heat alerts.
- The wildfire caused Spain's first wildfire-related deaths this summer, highlighting growing health and safety risks during Europe's extreme and prolonged heatwaves.
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BARCELONA.- The heat wave in Europe that punishes Europe helped fuel an aggressive forest fire in Spain that killed two farmers before hundreds of firefighters managed to control it thanks to a timely storm, authorities reported on Wednesday.The fire that started Tuesday night in the rural province of Lleida formed a huge thick column of ash and smoke that reached 14,000 meters of altitude, the largest recorded by firefighters in Catalonia.Firef…
A wildfire in Spain kills 2, as Europe bakes in a heat wave
A European heat wave helped fuel a virulent wildfire in Spain that killed two farmers before hundreds of firefighters brought it under control thanks to a timely rainstorm, authorities said Wednesday.The blaze that broke out late on Tuesday in the rural province of Lleida created an enormous thick plume of ash and smoke that reached 14,000 meters (45,000 feet) of altitude, making it the largest registered by firefighters in Catalonia, a northeas…
Barcelona, Spain. Two people died in a forest fire of “very violent characteristics” in northeastern Spain, authorities said, who warned this Wednesday of a summer “very complicated” by fires.The deadly fire occurred when Spain is immersed, like much of Europe, in an intense heat wave.In the region of Catalonia, in northeastern Spain, the authorities had to confine on Tuesday some 14,000 people for two fires declared almost simultaneously in the…
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