Climate emergency
This is how the ACV and Navarre firefighters contribute to the extinction of forest fires in Spain
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.
Unprecedented flood of fires: more than 344,000 hectares burned, thousands evacuated and four killed
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.
More than 50 ACV firefighters have moved to Castilla y León to help control forest fires
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.
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).
Fire out of control in Galicia, Castile and Leon and Extremadura: thousands of hectares burned and evacuated
Sanchez proposes a "grand pact of state" to respond to the climate emergency
The Spanish President has made this appeal during a visit to Galicia in response to the latest fires and has ensured that 'the necessary means' will be put in place to surround the active fires in the area.
Sanchez proposes "a grand state pact" to address the climate emergency
The President of the Spanish Government has made this appeal in response to the latest fires during his trip to Galicia and has ensured that 'the necessary means' will be put in place to surround the active fires in the area.
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In Álava, several villages in the Ribera Alta have cleared the forest and made a security perimeter around the homes
Lasierra is a village surrounded by encinars in the Ribera Alta (Álava), about a dozen inhabitants. Two years ago, a security perimeter of three hectares was built. With the assistance of the Council, eight workers cleaned the forest for a week.
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).
They have managed to stabilize the great fire in the Corbieres Massif in the south of France
The fire, which broke out last Tuesday and killed one person, a woman who refused to leave her home under siege by flames, is the most serious that France has suffered since 1949.
The fire in the south of France "no longer progresses," but is not yet under control
The fire that broke out on Tuesday in the Corbieres Massif is the largest in the French state since 1949, with more than 16,000 hectares burned. The prefect of the department of Aude, Christian Pouget, has warned that it remains to be seen how many of these hectares are agricultural land.
