Overview

• Lawmakers convene Friday at 11:00 for Mañueco’s open-ended statement, followed by a new round of brief questions from 15 individual deputies approved by the chamber’s leadership.
• Unions and environmental agents accuse the Junta’s leadership of incompetence and insufficient resources, describing exhausted crews and an overwhelmed operation.
• The blazes have scorched about 140,000 hectares in the region, a scale the Junta calls exceptional, citing support from the UME and foreign crews.
• PP leaders Miguel Tellado and Alfonso Rueda publicly defend Mañueco and criticize the opposition, after firefighters recently declined to greet the regional president during a royal visit.
• Ministers Óscar López and Fernando Grande-Marlaska say Madrid provided all requested assets and is willing to review intergovernmental cooperation, noting regions can ask the state to assume command in major emergencies.