Overview

• Felipe VI and Queen Letizia received representatives who fought the fires from the air at the Palacio de la Zarzuela on September 9.
• Attendees included personnel from the ministries of Defense, Interior and Ecological Transition, the UME, the Army, the Guardia Civil, BRIF units and local police forces.
• Hard‑hit Galicia, Castilla y León and Extremadura were represented alongside communities that supplied aerial resources, including Madrid, Aragón, Murcia, Asturias, Andalucía, Castilla-La Mancha, Cataluña, Valencia, Navarra and the Balearic Islands.
• EFFIS/Copernicus reported 336,345 hectares burned nationwide in August, with 97% concentrated in Galicia, Castilla y León and Extremadura.
• In late August, the Royals visited affected areas in the three worst‑hit regions, and the King previously observed operations at the UME headquarters in Torrejón during the peak of the crisis.