Overview

• Over 40 fires continue to burn in Galicia, Castilla y León and Extremadura after nine days of extreme heat and drought.
• Ourense has suffered roughly 50,000–58,500 hectares destroyed, around 7–8% of its territory, while Jarilla in Cáceres remains out of control on its northern flank after burning 11,000 hectares.
• Mass evacuations and transport closures have displaced thousands, and a firefighter’s death in León brings the confirmed toll to at least four fatalities.
• Spain’s UME emergency units and EU and foreign aerial assets have reinforced overstretched regional crews as political disputes and local protests intensify over resource adequacy.
• Separately, Argentine police and homicide prosecutors are probing the charred body of a young man discovered in a Monte Vera quarry as a suspected homicide.