Spanish authorities evacuated 12 villages on Wednesday evening after a major wildfire broke out in a national park on the border with Portugal, while Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez warned of an extremely tense wildfire situation.<\/p>\n
The blaze erupted near the municipality of Fermoselle in the Arribes del Duero National Park in the north-western region of Castile and Le\u00f3n. Authorities also imposed stay-at-home orders in two nearby villages because of the danger to residents, the regional government said.<\/p>\n
Around 950 people were evacuated from the affected area, Spanish media reported. They included residents of a nursing home in Muga de Sayago, the Guardia Civil police force said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez discussed the wildfire situation with King Felipe VI during a meeting in Palma de Mallorca and later told reporters they had also spoken about the extreme fire risk caused by the heat.<\/p>\n
Spain was currently battling 10 wildfires of varying intensity, S\u00e1nchez said, urging the public to exercise extreme caution as a new heatwave was expected to last until Sunday.<\/p>\n
He also said Spain had asked the European Commission to establish a new European wildfire-fighting centre on the island of Mallorca.<\/p>\n
Conditions were gradually improving in some parts of the country, with evacuation and movement restrictions being lifted in several areas.<\/p>\n
However, about 9,500 people in the Madrid region remained unable to return to their homes. Authorities had stabilized a wildfire in the Sierra Norte area west of Madrid, as well as another in the neighbouring province of Toledo south-west of the capital. In the province of \u00c1vila, all evacuation orders and movement restrictions had been lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish authorities evacuated 12 villages on Wednesday evening after a major wildfire broke out in a national park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1119115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[304899,2000,299,304900,239755,215851,5338,3046,104,48602],"class_list":["post-1119114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-arribes-del-duero-natural-park","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-fermoselle","tag-king-felipe-vi","tag-nearby-villages","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-portugal","tag-spain","tag-wildfire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117006218281918274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119114","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=1119114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1119115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}