France sends two Canadair to Spain in Spain on Thursday, August 14 and a coordinating plane available to the Spanish authorities, who called for help the European Union in an attempt to master the fires that ravage the country, the French Interior Minister announced.
In a message posted on X, Bruno Retailleau clarified that planes would take off in the morning of the Nîmes civil security base for a planned mission “To last two days”.
The Spanish Minister of the Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska had asked for aid of the EU and the sending of two Canadair on Wednesday evening, indicating that in total there were 11 level 2 fires (on a scale that has four) in his country.
Level 2 alert means a high risk of fire and implies a deployment of additional personnel, in particular military, and fire -fighting equipment.
Three deaths in Spain
Fires in Spain have killed three people since Tuesday. A person died while trying to extinguish a forest fire in the Castille-et-León region located in northwestern Spain, becoming the third fire victim this summer in the country, authorities announced on Thursday.
Tuesday a man died of his serious burns throughout the body, in a forest fire in Tres Cantos, a town 25 kilometers from the center of Madrid. Tuesday evening, a 35 -year -old volunteer would die by fighting against a fire in the León region. Other people were injured in this fire and are in serious condition due to burns.
This series of fires coincides with the heat wave that entered its twelfth day Thursday with all the regions on alert, including those in the North. Maximum temperatures are 40 ° C and night temperatures do not descend below 25 ° C.
