Overview
- A wildfire in Aragon’s Cinco Villas area has burned an estimated 12,000–16,000 hectares and remains active, prompting the evacuation of more than 1,100 residents.
- A separate blaze in Guadalajara province north of Madrid has scorched about 13,000–14,400 hectares and forced several hundred to around 700 people to leave their homes.
- Hundreds of firefighters, dozens of aircraft, army emergency units and heavy machinery have been deployed to both incidents in sustained multi-day suppression efforts.
- Authorities report no new civilian fatalities in the northern and central fires but say Spain recently suffered a deadly blaze in Almería that killed 13 people earlier in July.
- Investigations are under way with several detentions on suspicion of arson reported, and forecasts of continuing high heat and variable winds keep the risk of rekindling and further spread high.