Overview
- Fire services declared the Niebla (Huelva) blaze extinguished after it burned about 33,000 hectares while the Las Peñas de Riglos (Huesca) fire remains a major, active incident with a provisional area in the tens of thousands of hectares and ongoing evacuations.
- An extreme convective storm overnight Saturday produced locally measured totals up to about 200 liters per square meter, triggered roughly 700 emergency calls, forced more than 400 evacuations and left 11 people injured including one in critical condition after a wall collapse in Roda de Berà.
- Local officials and emergency teams mobilized ambulances, Bombers, SEM units and UME personnel to protect populated perimeters and rescue trapped people during both the fires and the floods.
- The Generalitat defended its decision not to issue an ES-Alert by saying the Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya did not show the threshold for activation while mayors and residents said warnings and infrastructure protections failed and are demanding changes to make the coastal rail corridor more permeable to let floodwater reach the sea.
- The twin episodes are sharpening public pressure for long-term prevention: unions and protesters call for bigger firefighting capacity, NGOs ask for stable funding for forest management, and local leaders press for land-planning and infrastructure investments to reduce future fire and flood risk.