The situation is clearly improving today on the fire fronts in both France and Spain, where a large fire is expected to soon be brought under control in the northeast.
In France, two wildfires that have ravaged 208,000 hectares of forest in the Gironde (southwest) in the past 10 days and forced the evacuation of at least 36,000 people did not progress overnight, with firefighters nevertheless attempting some rekindlings, local authorities said this morning. authorities.
Yesterday, Wednesday, some 2,000 firefighters managed to prevent the spread of the fires thanks to more favorable weather conditions, with a drop in temperature and a wetter wind.
The prefecture warned, however, that nearly 36,750 people who have been displaced are still unable to return to their homes.
In Spain, the evolution of the Ateca fire in Aragon (northeast) “has been in a positive direction in the last hours”, and new fires that broke out were immediately extinguished, the regional government said on Twitter.
That fire, which broke out on Monday, spans a perimeter of 140,000 hectares and has led to the evacuation of 1,700 people.
“The time for the residents to return to the evacuated villages is getting closer and closer but we have to be careful,” said the president of the region, Javier Laban.
The section of the A2 motorway that connects Madrid to Barcelona, which had to be closed due to the fires, was again handed over to traffic this morning, according to the authorities of Aragon.
Spain has been swept in recent days by a wave of devastating fires, fueled by a heat wave that lasted from July 9 to 19 and may have been the most extreme ever recorded in the country, according to provisional data from the national meteorological service (AEMET ).
Since the beginning of the year, nearly 700,000 hectares have turned to ash in the country, “essentially double the number of the average of the last ten years” during the same period, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.
According to the European Forest Fire Information System (EEFIS), which uses a different measurement method based on satellite observations, 2022 is already the worst year since records began in 2000, with 1,947,040 hectares charred from 319 fires, i.e. more than the total of 2012, the previous record year.
The fire in Thamora province (northwest), one of the worst in recent days which killed a firefighter and a shepherd on Sunday and Monday, has been brought under control and remains “under control and without flames”, the Castile region said – Leon.
After a brief respite in terms of temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday, Spain is expected to see the mercury climb again today: 41 degrees Celsius is expected in Extremadura (southwest) and 40 in Andalusia (south), while much of the territory remains on alert, according to AEMET.
Source: Capital
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