Overview

• Emergency services entered Friday with 20 serious fires still active but with lower temperatures, higher humidity and some rain improving conditions, according to AEMET and Protección Civil.
• Galicia remains the epicenter, with five large blazes active in Ourense — including Larouco at more than 30,000 hectares — while regional tallies place the province’s burned area between roughly 78,600 and 88,000 hectares, and level 2 alerts were declared for new fires in Oia and Vilaboa.
• Extremadura’s Jarilla fire, the largest in the region in decades, was perimetred and declared stabilized after burning about 17,300 hectares, with a downgrade to operational level 1 expected from 18:00 if progress holds.
• In Castilla y León, six localities in León were allowed to return after the Fasgar and Barniedo de la Reina fires eased, though about 1,518 residents remain evacuated and two villages are still confined.
• The human and operational toll remains severe, with four firefighting deaths, three brigadistas and a firefighter hospitalized in A Coruña in grave condition, and international teams from eight European countries — including 51 Romanian firefighters in Galicia and 20 Greek in Asturias — reinforcing suppression efforts.