Spain battles 20 large wild fires, deploy 500 additional soldiers in the burning temperature Climate crisis news

Spain has deployed 500 additional soldiers from the Military Emergency Unit to support firefighting operations because it fights 20 major strange fires throughout the country during a heat wave that started last week.

“There are still some difficult days, and unfortunately, the weather is not next to us,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told a press conference on Sunday in Ourense, one of the most affected areas in northwestern Spain.

He announced an increase in military reinforcements, which raised the total number of soldiers deployed across Spain to 1900.

Alfonso Rueda Prime Minister Alfonso Rueda said that firefighters deal with 12 main forest fires in the northwestern region of Galicia alone, all near Ourense.

“The houses are still threatened, so we have closed locations and impose evacuations,” she said.

The ads came at a time when the authorities are waiting for the arrival of promoting promised aircraft from other European countries.

Renv, the national railway operator, said that it had stopped the high -speed train services in Madrid Galicia, to be held on Sunday due to the fires.

The community authorities advised people to wear face masks and reduce their time in the open air to avoid smoke and ash.

Southern Europe is witnessing one of the worst seasons of wildfire in two decades with Spain from among the most difficult countries.

Last week alone, there are fires there Three people More than 1550 square meters (445 square meters) burned, while the neighboring Portugal also widespread fire battles.

It is expected that the temperatures will reach up to 45 ° C (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas on Sunday.

Virginia Barons, director of emergency services, told Spanish Public TV that the temperatures are expected to decrease from Tuesday, but at the present time, the weather conditions were “very opposite”.

It helps the European Union on its way

“The fire comes from all sides, but it does not come here,” Basilio Rodriguez, one of the resident, told Reuters on Saturday.

Spain was expecting the arrival of two Dutch planes to dump the waters who were joining a plane from France and Italy already helping the Spanish authorities under a European cooperation agreement.

“Firefighters from other countries are expected to reach the region in the coming days,” Parkons, the public broadcaster RTVE, told Public RTVE.

The Interior Ministry of Data shows that 27 had been arrested and 92 was under investigation due to the suspects suspects since June.

In the adjacent PortugalForest fires burned about 1550 square meters (600 square meters) of vegetation until now this year, according to temporary data from the Institute for Conservation of Nature and Forests – three times the average period for this period from 2006 to 2024. About half of that region is only burned in the past three days.

Thousands of firefighters were fighting eight large fires in the center and northern Portugal, and the largest of them near Baydaw, a mountainous area with picturesque views common to tourists.

Another fire in traffoso, in the far north, is now raging for eight days. A smaller fire was killed directly from there a local resident on Friday – the first death of this season.

Portugal is appointed to the colder weather in the coming days. A national alert was imposed due to forest fires on August 2 and was scheduled to end on Sunday, the day before two Swedish fire aircraft arriving.

As in Spain, Portugal resources have been extended. On Sunday, the Civil Protection Agency said more than 4000 firefighters and 1,300 vehicles were deployed in addition to 17 aircraft.

Forest fires also burn in Turki

Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Albania also requested the help of the European Union fire control force in recent days to deal with forest fires. The force has already been activated several times this year, as during the summer firefighter season last year.

in turkeyThe recent forest fires killed 19 people, parts of the historical area that included the memorial of the Gallipoli campaign were evacuated in the First World War on Sunday, when the fire threatened homes in the northwest of the country.

The governor of Kanakali province, Omar Turaman, said that six villages were evacuated as a precautionary measure.

About 1,300 members of fire -backed fires from 30 aircraft were fighting fire, according to the General Directorate of Forests.

Turkiye has shocked hundreds of fires since late June, nourished by record temperatures, dry conditions and strong winds.

Europe has been rising by bounce as soon as possible in the global average since the 1980s, according to the service of climate change in Copernicus in the European Union. Scientists said that climate change exacerbates the frequency, intensity of heat and drought in parts of Europe, making the region more vulnerable to forest fires.