{"id":53010,"date":"2026-07-10T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/53010\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:37:20","slug":"11-dead-19-missing-as-spain-wildfire-roars-through-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/53010\/","title":{"rendered":"11 dead, 19 missing as Spain wildfire roars through village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Eleven people were killed and 19 are missing after a wildfire tore through a Spanish village, with four victims who may have been British who were burned in their car, authorities said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Authorities said many of the victims may be foreign tourists visiting Bedar, a small village in Los Gallardos district, but that they were still confirming their identities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They described victims trying to flee the fast-moving blaze through difficult, forested terrain.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">About 400 firefighters and troops battled the inferno northeast of Almeria in the southern Andalusia region, which witnesses said may have been started by a power line that fell and set scrubland on fire.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It erupted as temperatures across heat-battered Spain and France were predicted to hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday, with forest fires blazing in both countries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A firefighting helicopter works on extinguishing a wildfire between Can Tries and the Serra de Ferreres in Spain on Wednesday. Photo: via ZUMA Press Wire\/dpa\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c93cbb0c-c18c-48a1-976e-507c38da6ae1_f60200c9.jpg\" title=\"A firefighting helicopter works on extinguishing a wildfire between Can Tries and the Serra de Ferreres in Spain on Wednesday. Photo: via ZUMA Press Wire\/dpa\"\/>A firefighting helicopter works on extinguishing a wildfire between Can Tries and the Serra de Ferreres in Spain on Wednesday. Photo: via ZUMA Press Wire\/dpa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAt the moment, we have confirmed that 11 people have lost their lives in the Los Gallardos fire; there are no words for such grief,\u201d Antonio Sanz, the Andalusia region\u2019s minister for emergencies, said in a video posted on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven people were killed and 19 are missing after a wildfire tore through a Spanish village, with four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1873,1965,22742,1213,15505,22026,22743,556,22746,22651,205,22744,17,22745,16559],"class_list":["post-53010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-almeria","tag-andalusia","tag-bedar","tag-british","tag-costa-brava","tag-drome","tag-european-forest-fire-information-system","tag-france","tag-juan-manuel-moreno-bonilla","tag-los-gallardos","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-platja-daro","tag-spain","tag-spains-military-emergency-unit","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53010","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=53010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}