The Community of Madrid has sent this Sunday 40 personnel and 15 vehicles to the province of Huesca to reinforce the operation deployed against the forest fire of Peñas de Riglos, which has already affected several thousand hectares. The contingent departed during the morning and is made up of members of...
Europe faces the second half of August under extraordinary pressure from wildfires. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned this Saturday that the continent remains at a high alert level for wildfires, a term referred to in Spanish as "alerta máxima," due to the simultaneity of...
The Government of Spain has provided more than 1,000 civilian and military personnel and nearly 320 units to the operation fighting the forest fire that started a week ago in Niebla, in the province of Huelva. The fire has already affected eleven localities in the provinces of Huelva and Sevilla, in a fire that the central Executive qualifies as the worst forest disaster ever...
The acting Government delegate in Andalucía, Francisco Toscano, has pointed out that the situation of the forest fire in Niebla, in Huelva, “remains complicated,” although the night has been “a little more favorable” than the previous days from a meteorological point of view. Toscano made these statements in an interview on...
The means of extinguishing the fire that remains active in the province of Castellón are working on two main fronts. One is located to the north and affects the municipality of Catí, which has been confined since Saturday afternoon. The other is located to the south, in the municipal term of Tírig, where the...
The judicial investigation of the fire that ravaged more than 5,200 hectares in the Almerian Levante has focused on the last movements of the 14 deceased individuals. According to the first indications incorporated into the case, most of the victims would have abandoned the recommended evacuation route by the emergency...
A fire declared last night in Granada capital mobilized the Firefighters after the flames ignited in a grassy area located next to the roundabout of the Neptuno Shopping Center, one of the most well-known and trafficked points in the city. The fire originated in an open space near the commercial and...
The forest fire declared on Thursday afternoon in the area of Raboconejo, in the municipality of Niebla, has already burned an area of more than 4,000 hectares and maintains an evolution marked by instability. The situation has forced the Andalusian Government to request the incorporation of the Military Emergency Unit,...
The wildfires affecting the Community of Madrid maintain an exceptional situation in the Sierra Oeste, one of the areas hardest hit by the fire in this emergency. The fires in Villa del Prado, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, and the one originating in Almorox, in the province of Toledo, ended up...
The forest fire declared this Saturday in la Vall d’Uixó, in the province of Castellón, continues this Sunday active and “out of control”, according to the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, after the meeting of the Cecopi at the Advanced Command Post. The fire has already reached a...
The King Felipe VI has called for the unity of the Spaniards in the face of the virulent wildfires affecting various points of the country and has asked political leaders to convey to the public the certainty that all possible means are being used to combat the emergency. The monarch made these statements after...
The Valencian Generalitat, through the Emergency Coordination Center, has sent a new Es-Alert message due to the forest fire affecting la Vall d’Uixó, in the province of Castellón. The notice maintains the confinement of the population and reinforces the recommendations to avoid the entry of smoke into homes, businesses, and enclosed spaces. The measure is adopted while...
The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has confirmed this Sunday that the Council of Ministers will approve next Tuesday a royal decree law to declare the areas affected by the wildfires as severely damaged by a civil protection emergency, a figure that will allow for the articulation of aid and extraordinary measures for the territories...
The deep space tracking station of the European Space Agency, the ESA, in Cebreros, in the province of Ávila, seems to have suffered no damage from the forest fire affecting the area, although the agency has still not been able to physically access the facilities to conduct a complete inspection. The...
The forest fire declared in Ejulve, in the province of Teruel, has been declared stabilized this Sunday after affecting about 3,000 hectares, according to the Government of Aragón. The favorable evolution of the fire has allowed the return of the 175 evacuated people in recent days and lifted part of...
The Military Emergency Unit reports that all fronts of the fires affecting Madrid and Ávila are contained, after a night in which the firefighting teams have made significant progress on the perimeter. The head of the First Battalion of Emergency Intervention of the UME, Lieutenant Colonel Alfonso Arribas, explained this Sunday that the situation allows for a...
The wildfires hitting various points in Spain have already forced the evacuation or confinement of more than 121,000 people, a figure that reflects the human dimension of an emergency that is not measured only in burned hectares, but also in evacuated towns, threatened homes, cut-off roads, and neighbors awaiting instructions...
The BOE of today, Thursday, July 23, 2026, publishes the royal decree that regulates the direct granting of aid for the purchase of electric and electrified vehicles within the Auto+ Program. The bulletin also includes a royal decree to promote the decarbonization of transport and renewable fuels, a law supporting...
The King Felipe VI maintains contact with ten of the mayors of the municipalities in Madrid affected by the forest fire that continues to hit the southwest of the Community of Madrid, an emergency that has forced extraordinary protective measures to be taken for the population and that keeps firefighters, Guardia Civil, Civil...
The forest fire in Gironde, in the southwest of France, has become one of the largest environmental and civil emergencies recorded in the country in recent years, after ravaging more than 30,000 hectares and forcing the evacuation of about 167,000 people from the areas most exposed to the advance of...
The wildfires hitting the central peninsula have already forced the evacuation or confinement of almost 80,000 peoplebetween the Community of Madrid and the province of Ávila, in one of the most serious emergencies in recent years due to the number of affected population. The data was updated this Saturday by the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco...
The advance of the wildfires in the west of the Community of Madrid has forced the evacuation of almost a hundred employees from the NASA Deep Space Communications Complex located in Robledo de Chavela. The measure was adopted this Friday due to the proximity of the flames and within the protection device deployed by the large...
The fires affecting the west of the Community of Madrid maintain significant traffic restrictions this July 25, on a day marked by the evolution of the fire and by the work of evacuation, confinement, and extinction. The situation is concentrated in the Sierra Oeste, where several municipalities remain affected by the...
Scorching and suffocating. The weather is once again marked by extreme heat. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has activated a special warning for the arrival of the third heat wave of the summer, an episode that will begin this Tuesday and that, at least initially, will last until Thursday with...
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has described the forest fire declared in Los Gallardos (Almería) as "one of the fastest and most complex fires of recent years", in a statement made this Friday from the Advanced Command Post set up in Turre. The provisional balance of the...