Overview
- A vehicle and vegetation blaze began near the Peñismar residential area in Peñíscola and left several people injured while firefighters worked to extinguish multiple burning cars.
- Local crews sent six ground teams, a command unit and three aerial water-dropping assets to Peñíscola as municipal sources said the lot where the fire started is not an authorized parking area.
- A separate wildfire ignited at El Castellot in Castellví de la Marca and grew fast enough that Bombers de la Generalitat deployed about 33 ground crews and eight aerial units to fight it.
- Authorities ordered the confinement of four urbanizations affecting 169 residents and warned that roads TP-2442 and TV-2443 may be disrupted as wind shifts opened the fire’s head and created secondary hotspots.
- Both incidents remain active, investigators are probing causes including witness claims of an electric-vehicle ignition in Peñíscola, and officials say the twin fires are straining regional emergency resources.