Overview

• Spain is fighting 14 major wildfires, with merged fronts in Galicia forcing evacuations and closures of highways and high-speed rail services.
• A prolonged heatwave pushing temperatures toward 44°C and strong southerly winds has triggered ‘very high to extreme’ nationwide fire-risk alerts from AEMET.
• Spain secured two Canadair water-bombers under the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to reinforce firefighting capacity as domestic crews stretch their limits.
• Spain’s Civil Guard has detained at least 10 suspects on arson allegations since June, with political friction emerging over allocation of air resources.
• Portugal has deployed nearly 4,000 firefighters against seven major blazes and Greece continues evacuations and aerial operations on Chios.