{"id":1110455,"date":"2026-07-25T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1110455\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:07:39","slug":"homes-go-up-in-flames-as-wildfires-tear-through-spain-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1110455\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes go up in flames as wildfires tear through Spain | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating footage shows homes going up in flames as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/wildfires\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires<\/a> continue to rage across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/spain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 650 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/emergency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">emergency<\/a> responders have been deployed across the Chapineria and Robledo de Chavela municipalities near the Spanish capital of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska declared a national emergency on Friday (24 July) in the Community of Madrid and Avila province due to the worsening situation caused by several forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>The move came as more than 20,000 people were evacuated from the affected areas and authorities warned that the fires had exceeded local firefighting capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has been facing a challenging wildfire season with high temperatures, dry conditions and strong winds complicating firefighting operations across several regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devastating footage shows homes going up in flames as wildfires continue to rage across Spain. More than 650&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1110456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[10105,299478,299479,299477,31481,47671,393,271709,50024,2000,299,1512,19560,75473,299476,44888,252298,11627,77777,47681,150535,59502,2249,257969,10031,104,93,6573,271711,659,255559],"class_list":["post-1110455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-usa","tag-world-sports-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}