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Major Wildfires Stabilized as New Blazes Emerge in Spain and Mexico

Coordinated firefighting efforts have subdued the largest blazes as new ignitions in Galicia and Baja California underscore lingering threats.

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El incendio se ha producido en la cocina de un restaurante en el Paseo Neptuno

Overview

  • Las Hurdes fire in Cáceres has been stabilized at Plan Infoex Level 1, allowing residents of Avellanar to return after it scorched 2,778 hectares.
  • The Valle del Tiétar blaze in Ávila is fully controlled with no active flames or smoke columns after burning over 2,260 hectares.
  • A Cañiza fire in Pontevedra was declared stabilized and emergency status was lifted after it consumed around 300 hectares.
  • A new wildfire at km 85 of the Tecate–Mexicali road in Baja California remains active with 200 hectares burned and containment at 10 percent.
  • Judicial inquiries are probing suspected agricultural negligence in Galicia and Castilla y León, including investigations into three farm-related ignitions and a harvester driver suspected in a 64-hectare blaze.