{"id":61896,"date":"2026-07-28T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/61896\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:24:13","slug":"france-and-spain-battle-to-control-wildfires-ahead-of-expected-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/61896\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Spain battle to control wildfires ahead of expected heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters in France and Spain raced to contain huge wildfires on Tuesday before another surge in temperatures threatens to worsen conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the two countries, in what the Associated Press described as one of Europe&#8217;s largest evacuation operations in decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In southwestern France, firefighters managed to prevent a blaze near Bordeaux from expanding overnight, although several flare-ups were reported. The fire has burned around 42,000 hectares over six days, forced 220,000 people to evacuate and destroyed 240 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Emmanuel Macron warned that &#8220;the coming weeks will be tough and we have to hold out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Spain, firefighters are battling blazes west of Madrid which have forced around 60,000 people to evacuate. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the coming hours would be &#8220;absolutely decisive&#8221; as temperatures begin rising again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EU has deployed additional water-bombing aircraft to France, but Crisis Management Commissioner Hadja Lahbib warned that resources could soon be needed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Extreme conditions are looming for Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, in addition to France, the Iberian Peninsula&#8230; where the situation is expected to worsen, including in Portugal starting today,&#8221; Lahbib said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters in France and Spain raced to contain huge wildfires on Tuesday before another surge in temperatures threatens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22894,21975,556,17],"class_list":["post-61896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-firefighters","tag-france","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61896","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=61896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}