BARCELONA: A wildfire that broke out in the Andalusian province of Huelva, in southwestern Spain, remained active on Sunday (Aug 9), prompting the evacuation of 470 locals as a precaution.<\/p>\n
Authorities expressed optimism that they are managing to control a blaze which has so far affected some 8,000ha, not all of which have been burnt.<\/p>\n
“The fire remains complex. We still have work to do and a tough day ahead, involving a great deal of intervention, but today we are somewhat more optimistic,” said the Andalucia region’s minister for emergencies, Antonio Sanz.<\/p>\n
Around 500 firefighters aided by waterbombing planes have been deployed to keep the blaze at Niebla, some 70km from the border with Portugal, at bay.<\/p>\n
Spain is enduring a tough summer for wildfires, with around three dozen blazes having forced the evacuation of thousands of people, especially in the centre of the country.<\/p>\n
One that raged in July in the Avila region near Madrid was considered the biggest Spain had seen in recent history, laying waste to some 50,000ha.<\/p>\n
Early in July, another sweeping blaze caused 14 deaths in Almeria province in Andalusia.<\/p>\n
Europe has suffered a succession of heatwaves and drought this year, which scientists say have been aggravated by human-generated climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BARCELONA: A wildfire that broke out in the Andalusian province of Huelva, in southwestern Spain, remained active on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,16559],"class_list":["post-68317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-spain","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68317","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=68317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}