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Spain does not stop fighting:
The north-west. Therefore, west of the country are plagued by flames while the heat wave settles permanently throughout the country.
Spain which enters its third week of heat wave alert still faces violent fires which are concentrated in the northwest and west of the country, where the army is deployed to help fight the flames. Consequently, Castile-et-Leon, Galicia, Asturias and Estremadure are now the main fireplaces of forest fires.
Pedro Sánchez. For example, who participated this Saturday in a coordination meeting on fires “In order to analyze their evolution“Said that after the departure of two water bombers loaned by France,”Two new Italian Canadian Tannerships, supplied by the European Civil Protection Mechanism, arrived at Matacán Air Base (Salamanca)». For example, «The government continues to work to fight fire with all the means available to spain does not stop fighting it“He said on social network X. while fire management feeds the political debate every day.
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Help in Galicia sent alert messages to phones, inviting the population of several dozen localities to confine themselves. “”If you receive this alert: keep your calm and read the text carefully (…) in the face of the progress of fires, avoid any unnecessary displacement and stay at home. If you are outside and you have nowhere to confine yourself, get away from the affected areas». Nearly 3. 500 UME soldiers (emergency military unit), called to rescue in the event of serious fires, are dispatched to the various worrying fires.
Smoke reaches the United Kingdom – Spain does not stop fighting
Castile-et-Leon. by the voice of its regional president, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (PP, curator) asked the central government of the socialist Pedro Sánchez, “Faced with an exceptional situation due to extreme weather conditions and the multiplication spain does not stop fighting of fires, (…) an exceptional response: in addition to regional units and UME, we need more army staff available to regions».
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ESTREMADURE has also made an official request for reinforcements to the central government, in a country where the extinction of fires is in principle of the jurisdiction of the regions, the central government intervening in the event of a large -scale disaster. The region has also called for the reactivation of the European civil protection mechanism requiring 100 fire trucks. 10 light helicopters and 10 amphibious helicopters.
Spain should stay on heat alert until Monday, and these extreme temperatures have very much increased the risk of fires.
Smoke from forest fires in Spain and Portugal has arrived above the United Kingdom, the meteorological service indicates on X. spain does not stop fighting In a press release. the service explains that smoke “will continue to move above certain regions of the United Kingdom during the weekend and make the sky misty/milky at times».
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Since the beginning of the year. more than 157,000 hectares have been reduced to ashes in Spain, according to the real -time map of the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis).
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