Overview

• In an extraordinary session, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco said the Junta used all available resources, citing 348 fires in 23 days, about 141,000 hectares burned, more than 20,000 evacuees and four deaths.
• Outside the Cortes, roughly 300 firefighters, environmental agents, unions and supporters called for a year‑round public force and the resignations of Mañueco and Juan Carlos Suárez‑Quiñones, burning posters of both officials.
• Mañueco urged cross‑party cooperation, trailed a forest‑planning decree for next week and asked the central government to convene a presidents’ conference on a new national approach to extreme fires.
• Investigations point to human causes in 72 fires with five arrests so far; a suspected arson in Berlanga del Bierzo led to one detention and the evacuation of about 200 residents, who returned after the blaze was controlled.
• Extremadura approved a restructuring of forest and emergency management, year‑round coverage boosts for INFOEX drivers, a Medalla de Extremadura for INFOEX, and direct aid and concessional loans for affected tourism and farm operations.