One firefighter has died and another has been injured in a fire in Leon
Thus, four people have already died as a result of the fires on the Iberian peninsula, three of them in the province of León, where the fourth victim died on Tuesday from burns in Tres Cantos (Madrid).
Firefighters working to quell a forest fire.
One firefighter has died and another has been injured in the Leonese municipality of Espinoso de Compludo by dumping a pump car in the fire extinguishing work in thetown of Yeres in the Ponferrada region.
The accident occurred around 10:30 this Sunday, when the A0pump car fell down an embankment, whose driver was the deceased firefighter, who, like the other injured firefighter, was a member of the fire operation and employee of the Junta de Castilla y León.
Thus, four people have already died as a result of the fires on the Iberian peninsula , three of them in the province of León. The fourth victim died on Tuesday in Tres Cantos (Madrid) as a result of burns.
The fire continues unchecked. The mountains of Europe, on alert.
Meanwhile, forest fires continue to burn in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula . At the moment, the fire is about to reach the Natural Park of the mountains of Europe, especially in the north, and the burnt hectares in thecommunities ofGalicia and Extremadura continue to rise.
The fires in theprovince of Ourense have already burned 58,500 hectares, and the one that has caused the most damage in Extremadura Jarilla has had 11,000 hectares lur erre. Leónis also a very worrying situation and has had to evacuate 2,000 people in 60 municipalities.
In addition, rail traffic between Madrid and Galicia will continue to be suspended due to the fire situation.
In this regard, thousands of people who have been evacuated from their homes by the fires are still unable to return to their homes in municipalities such as León, Palencia, Zamora and Salamanca , and more people may be evacuated in the next few hours.
In Castile and Leonthe most worrying fire at the moment is in Jarilla (Cáceres), where wind and high temperatures have spread the flames very easily.
Thefires in Asturias have undergone a "better" development in recent hours, but the alert remains at the highest level and the firefighters will have to continue to work in the area.
A total of 27 people have been arrested and 92 investigatedsince the start of the forest fire campaign on 1 June.
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