Heat waves

Air and ground firefighters are still working to refresh the ground.

The fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in a wooded area of Urraulgoiti. Emergency services have deployed a special device.

According to Euskalmet, Oleta (Álava) and Galdakao (Bizkaia) have also exceeded 35 degrees, and a tropical night is expected for today.

In addition, another yellow warning will be issued by Sunday for the risk of forest fires, as the southern wind will continue to blow strongly, especially on the Cantabrian side.

In August, 74 deaths were recorded, most of them between 11 and 22 of the month, on the hottest days.

13 fires are still in operational condition, most of them in Castile and Leon. The expected weather conditions in the next few hours will be beneficial for their control and extinction.

Since the beginning of the summer fire wave, some 34,000 people have been evicted and 413,992 hectares have been burned in 268 fires, and 48 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement.

The risk remains extreme and the risk level will not drop until Thursday or Friday, so the authorities have called for extreme caution.

Six fires remain at the highest level of gravity and two have been declared this very Sunday. The positive development of the last few days has allowed six others to be taken under control. However, rising temperatures, coupled with reduced humidity and wind, complicate the situation again.

Of the most worrying forest fires, five are in Leon, while in Asturias the three largest fires have been stabilized.

On Monday there will be very high temperatures inside, while on Tuesday temperatures will drop and rain will fall at some points.

According to a recent report, 2.4 billion people may be exposed to extreme temperatures while working.

Extinction work is currently under way in the municipality of Fasgar (Leon), where thousands of hectares of fire have been burned, with a capacity of 1,000 litres.

A total of 58 firefighters from the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) have travelled to Castilla y León to assist in the control of forest fires following the Board's request for assistance to the Basque Government, while 24 professionals from Navarra have travelled to Asturias.

Around a thousand people in León have protested against the management carried out so far and have called for resignations, as well as the declaration of level 3 emergency, so that the management would be transferred from the Junta de Castilla y León to the Spanish Government.

In summer, there have already been 65 deaths from pathologies associated with excessive temperatures.

In particular, the measure was taken after the Junta de Castilla y León requested assistance from the Basque Government Eusko Jaurlaritza, thus joining the helicopter recently sent to help put out the fires.

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).