All of Spain on heat wave alert

All of Spain is on Friday on a heat wave alert on Friday. Similarly, the fire front continues to worry the authorities, especially since the meteorological agency has issued a very high risk notice to extreme ‘for a large part of the country.

The whole peninsula remains on a heat wave alert for the thirteenth consecutive day. Meanwhile, and even the Cantabrique region, in the northwest, hitherto spared, will experience a peak in temperatures that can exceed 40 degrees, said the National Meteorological Agency AEMET, warning that ‘Friday, the risk of fires’ was ‘very high or extreme in the majority of the country’, Included ‘.

The country is experiencing a very intense fire season with 157. 501 hectares already reduced to ashes since the start of the year according to the European information system data system (effis). However, we are still far all spain heat wave alert from 2022 which had seen more than 306,000 ha go up in smoke.

Spain. which has already recorded three deaths in these fires, including two young volunteers who have perished while trying to turn the fire in Castile-et-Leon (north-west) received the reinforcement of two Canadair sent by France on Thursday.

This is where a large part of the attention is made because the region must fight against a dozen. very active lights.

Coupled train line

The train line connecting Madrid to Galicia (North West) is still cut off. as well as dozen roads in the country.

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned that ‘today’s day will be very difficult again. with an extreme risk of new fires. The government remains mobilized with all the resources to contain the flames. Thank you, eternally, to those who fight on the front line to protect us’, he wrote on X.

The fires have all spain heat wave alert been at the heart of the political debate in recent days. the two main parties, socialist socialists of the PSOE and conservatives of the PP rushing into their management in a country where the extinction of forest fires fails in principle to the regions, and not to the central government which only intervenes in case of large scale, and can mobilize the army, in this case the military unit of emergency (UME), very requested in recent days and many regions of the country.

The PP accuses the government of having reduced the number of air means. while the PSOE defends it and criticizes the leaders of the opposition ‘absent’ from the field in the middle of fire, accusing some of being on vacation when their region is plagued by flames.

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