{"id":50327,"date":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/50327\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","slug":"fire-threatening-spain-tourist-hotspot-partly-controlled-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/50327\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire threatening Spain tourist hotspot partly controlled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spanish firefighters said Saturday that a wildfire threatening the Costa Brava coast has devoured a huge area of trees and bush and forced the evacuation of 150 tourists from a camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire broke out Friday outside the northeastern municipality of La Bisbal d\u2019Emporda, near a picturesque coastline usually full of holidaymakers this time of year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has reduced around 2,200 hectares (8.5 square miles) of forest to ash, the regional fire service said in a statement. But they have controlled more than two thirds of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of firefighters worked through the night and \u201chave stabilised around 70 percent of the right flank of the fire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow the objective is to consolidate before the winds change, which is forecast for midday,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catalonia regional emergency services said around 150 people had been evacuated, including about 70 children, from a holiday camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain is on the front line of climate change, which scientists say increases the intensity, frequency and duration of the extreme heat that fuels wildfires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deadly wildfires devoured almost 400,000 hectares of land last year, the highest figure recorded for the country by the European Forest Fire Information System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish firefighters said Saturday that a wildfire threatening the Costa Brava coast has devoured a huge area of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1150,6380,17],"class_list":["post-50327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-international","tag-mna","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}