Overview

• Emergency services report about 20 severe fires still active, with Galicia’s Larouco blaze exceeding 30,000 hectares and continuing to threaten the Sierra de O Courel.
• Authorities tally more than 403,000 hectares burned and over 33,000 people displaced, and a fifth death was confirmed in Cipérez (Salamanca).
• Improved conditions—lower temperatures, higher humidity and some rain—helped stabilize key fronts, including Jarilla (Cáceres), while new outbreaks in Oia and Vilaboa (Pontevedra) forced evacuations and León’s Bierzo area remains critical with road closures.
• International assistance under the EU mechanism includes aircraft and seven firefighting teams; recent arrivals include 51 Romanian firefighters in Galicia and 20 Greek specialists in Asturias, alongside deployments from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland and Andorra.
• Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a Tuesday interministerial meeting on climate policy and plans to formalize disaster-zone declarations, as the PP attacks the government’s coordination choices, prosecutors examine prevention plans, and police report 40 arrests with 119 more under investigation.