Overview

• The state coordination committee (Cecod) decided Saturday night to move from preemergency to an alert and permanent monitoring phase, announced Sunday by Protección Civil chief Virginia Barcones.
• Authorities report more than 300,000 hectares burned nationwide with four deaths and 48 injured, across 93 recorded fires, including 39 classified as large.
• Galicia declared its three summer megafires extinguished and estimates close to 100,000 hectares affected in the region.
• The response drew aid from 10 European countries as the UME logged 47 operations with 5,772 personnel and 2,138 assets, and up to 57 aircraft operated on peak days.
• Police and civil protection carried out 35,917 evacuations as regions pivot to recovery, while local flare-ups persist elsewhere such as Las Termas de Río Hondo in Argentina, where 22 fires in five days and a power outage were linked to negligent or intentional burns.