{"id":57256,"date":"2026-07-18T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/57256\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:40:10","slug":"huge-wildfire-burns-through-15800-hectares-in-northern-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/57256\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge wildfire burns through 15,800 hectares in northern Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dramatic drone footage<\/a> shared by the Spanish civil guard on Saturday captured hellish scenes as a wildfire<\/a> tore through the north of the country. <\/p>\n

The video footage showed a ravaging wildfire burning the Cinco Villas area of Zaragoza province. Spain<\/a>\u2019s largest wildfire of the year has so far burned around 16,000 hectares in the northern region and forced the evacuation of more than 1,100 people.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the fire, which broke out on Wednesday, remained \u201cquite active\u201d and was \u201cstill far from being stabilised\u201d on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Around 450 ground personnel, 11 fire engines, 16 ground crews, six helicopters and two bulldozers were deployed to battle the blaze.<\/p>\n

\"DroneDrone shows major wildfire raging in northern Spain (Guardia Civil)<\/p>\n

The fire was still active on Saturday afternoon, with officials from Aragon, the affected area in the north-east of Spain, saying that firefighters had slowed its advance on the left flank. <\/p>\n

The towns of Or\u00e9s, As\u00edn, Luesia, Malpica de Arba, and Uncastillo remain evacuated.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Spain\u2019s ministry of defence said emergency workers were working with officials from Aragon to put a stop to the fires. The approximate perimeter of the wildfire was 15,800 hectares as of 5pm on Saturday. <\/p>\n

\"FirefightersFirefighters work at a site following a wildfire in the municipality of Ores on Wednesday (Reuters)<\/p>\n

Minister of finance and interior, Roberto Berm\u00fadez de Castro, said: \u201cWe can be a little optimistic about how the fire has evolved today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe perimeter hasn\u2019t grown and the fire isn\u2019t out of control as it was in previous days, although it\u2019s still far from being stabilised. <\/p>\n

\u201cTonight and tomorrow we will continue working with the same resources, both personnel and aircraft. We have to make a significant effort over these next two days to try to stabilise the situation as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Moises,Moises, evacuated from the village of Asin, awaits with his dog Thor at a municipal sports centre turned into a temporary shelter in the town of Ejea de los Caballeros (Reuters)<\/p>\n

Successive early summer heatwaves, which many scientists blame on human-driven climate change, have pushed temperatures to unprecedented levels in large swathes of the continent, causing water shortages, crop damage, wildfires, and thousands more deaths than normal.<\/p>\n

Spain has suffered severe heatwaves in recent years, with temperatures exceeding 40C. <\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s Guardia Civil said on Saturday that a 31-year-old man had been detained in Zamora and another 32-year-old was being investigated on suspicion of 15 offences of arson and forest fire. <\/p>\n

\"AA firefighter works at a site, following a wildfire in the municipality of Ores, northern Aragon region (Reuters)<\/p>\n

The main concern in the coming hours is the potential for the fire to reignite in the perimeter, as there are some areas that have not yet burned. <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, at least 12 people died in a wildfire in southern Spain, with seven Britons among those dead. <\/p>\n

The wildfires tore through Spain\u2019s Almer\u00eda province, where Pete and Fran Gillam lived in the village of B\u00e9dar. The couple were killed in the fire, with the family saying they were \u201cheartbroken\u201d to hear the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11107,5694,22776,17],"class_list":["post-57256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-accidents","tag-disasters","tag-natural-catastrophes","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57256","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=57256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}