{"id":271213,"date":"2025-07-18T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271213\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:21:09","slug":"an-uncontrolled-wildfire-sends-a-cloud-of-smoke-over-spains-capital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271213\/","title":{"rendered":"An uncontrolled wildfire sends a cloud of smoke over Spain’s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADRID — An uncontrolled wildfire burned outside Madrid on Thursday, sending a giant cloud of smoke over the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n

The fire broke out in the town of Mentrida in central Spain’s Castile-La Mancha region about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of the capital. Local authorities urged residents to stay home and close their windows.<\/p>\n

Spanish authorities said the blaze had burned around 3,000 hectares (roughly 7,400 acres) by the late evening.<\/p>\n

Firefighters deployed on the ground and in the air were working to extinguish the fire that began around 3 pm. <\/p>\n

Wind blew the smoke over Madrid, where in the afternoon skies turned orange and thick with smoke.<\/p>\n

Large parts of Spain are under heat and fire warnings,<\/a> with temperatures on Thursday reaching 37 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) in Madrid. <\/p>\n

Europe is the world\u2019s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing<\/a> at twice the speed as the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service.<\/p>\n

Scientists warn that climate change is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of heat and dryness, which makes places more vulnerable to wildfires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID — An uncontrolled wildfire burned outside Madrid on Thursday, sending a giant cloud of smoke over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[102859,3907,8616,2311,2000,299,12264,4179,104,732,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-271213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-102859","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-climate-and-environment","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-fires","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-wildfires","18":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114872561645937035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271213","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=271213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}