Overview

• Several hundred firefighters and forest agents rallied outside the Cortes, demanded a year‑round public operative, and called for the resignations of Mañueco and top environment officials.
• Mañueco cited an exceptional emergency—348 fires in 23 days, about 141,000 hectares burned and more than 20,000 evacuees—and urged opponents to avoid electoral calculations.
• He announced an “extensive dialogue” with sectors from agriculture to universities and said a decree to regulate forest planning in Castilla y León will be approved next week.
• Internal bulletins warned of extreme risk from August 1, and at least six agents say offers to cut short vacations went unanswered, a claim the regional department dismissed despite written requests reported by EL PAÍS.
• Operations show mixed progress: major Ourense fires are controlled or stabilized, León still struggles with the long‑running Fasgar blaze and new arsons like Berlanga del Bierzo—now controlled with one arrest—while authorities report indications of human causation in 72 fires and five detainees overall; Extremadura separately announced a restructuring to strengthen prevention and emergency management.