The fire is burning Spain with more than a dozen forest fires
Most of the fires have originated in Castilla y León (more than 5,000 people are out of their homes) and Ourense (Galicia), but there have also been major fires in Tres Cantos (Madrid), Navalmoralejo (Toledo) and Tarifa (Cadiz).
Fire in Las Medulas, Leon.
The fires have cracked in the last few days in many corners of Spain, causing more than a dozen forest fires, most of them in Castilla y León (more than 5,000 people outof their homes) and Ourense (Galicia).
The Military Emergency Unit (EMU) has deployed about 1,000 troops , and the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge has deployed a number of resources to assist in the extinction work.
The day began with the entry into force of Level 1 of the Civil Protection Pre-emergency Phase and an emergency meeting of the State Forest Fire Coordination and Management Committee.
As has been said, many fires have been declared in Castile and Leon . late in the afternoon, the fire in the Molezuelas area (Zamora) is still active and more villages in the south of the province of Leon have had to be evicted. For the time being, some 3,000 people have had to be evicted, according to the Subdelegation of the Spanish Government.
At 2.50 p.m., the Civil Guard of Ávila arrested a man who confessed to intentionally causing the forest fire that broke out on 28 July between Cuevas del Valle and Mombeltran , apparently out of work interest, as he is an extinction worker.
Another of the provinces most affected by the fire is Ourense . The Galician Government has set emergency level 2 at 14:18, due to simultaneous fires .
In general, those that have caused the most damage (more than 20 hectares burned or endangered housing) have already burned about 4,350 hectares, according to the latest estimates by the Department of Rural Environment.
The fire, which has burned 450 hectares in the municipality of Maceda (Ourense), has also been revived, according to Mayor Uxía Oviedo, who has indicated that the situation is under consideration because theeviction of the town of A Teixeira , as happened this weekend, may be necessary.
For her part, the Rural Councillor, María José Gómez, has acknowledged that the situation in Galicia is' worrying 'because' about 40 or 50 fires are lit a day '.
In addition, rail traffic between Santiago and Ourense has been restored this afternoon after being cut off from 1.45 p.m. due to a fire in the As Burgas railway area, reported by Renfe and Adif, and the section between Ourense and Taboadela of the Gallego-Madrid high-speed line has been closed.
On the other hand, the Municipal Police confirmed at 4.39 p.m. that some residents of Seixalde (Ourense) were being evicted because the fire was near the homes.
Apart from the major fires in León and Ourense, in the last few hours there has been a fire in Tres Cantos (Madrid) that has destroyed one person eta about 1,500 hectares.
The deceased is a 55-year-old man who worked in a hypica in the Soto de Viñuelas urbanization and died as a result of the burns he allegedly suffered while trying to save his horses. The Spanish Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, has stated that the fire has originated from natural causes.
Navalmoralejo (Toledo) has also suffered a fire that has already crossed the border with Extremadura, after burning about 3,000 hectares, 75% of them in that neighbouring community.
Meanwhile, in Andalusia, the Interior Advisor of the local government, Antonio Sanz, has announced that there are "strong indications" that the fire at the Sierra de la Plata site in Tarifa (Cadiz) has been "intentional".
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