Overview

• Emergency services entered Friday with cooler, wetter conditions, more than 403,000 hectares burned nationwide and about 33,000 evacuees, with the worst fronts in Galicia, Castilla y León, Asturias and Extremadura.
• Galicia reports five active fires and a planned phased drawdown once conditions allow, with the Larouco blaze above 30,000 hectares and new level‑2 alerts in Oia and Vilaboa after a day of stabilization progress in Ourense.
• Extremadura says the Jarilla fire has slowed after roughly 17,000 hectares burned, the region has requested disaster‑zone status and assured farmers their CAP payments qualify as force majeure, while Asturias counts 5,300 hectares burned with three active fires and open arson probes.
• In Castilla y León authorities still track dozens of fires, allow some residents to return and focus concern on the Porto blaze in Zamora, as three brigadistas and one firefighter remain hospitalized in A Coruña in serious to very serious condition following earlier frontline fatalities that bring the death toll among responders to four.
• Political tensions over national coordination escalated as protests spread in Galicia and the central government promised a disaster declaration for next Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, while eight European countries have deployed teams under the EU mechanism, with Romanian and Greek contingents arriving to bolster operations.