Spain: Spanish authorities announced on Thursday that controlling a large forest fire in the northeast of the country could take days, raising new concerns a week after the disaster, the deadliest of its kind in the country’s modern history.
According to National Iraqi News Agency, more than 400 firefighters, supported by military reinforcements, are battling the blaze raging in the municipality of Oures, which has consumed 4,500 hectares in a sparsely populated part of the Aragon region.
Roberto Bermºdez de Castro, a senior member of the regional government, stated that small villages with only minor damage to homes have been evacuated, adding, “It will take several days to control, and it will be a difficult fire.”
For his part, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S¡nchez, speaking via the X platform, expressed his “solidarity with the residents affected by the fire” and urged citizens to exercise extreme caution and follow the instructions of the authorities.
The Aragon region has experienced record temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius in recent days.
Spain is still reeling from the aftermath of a devastating forest fire in the province of Almera, which claimed 13 lives, including seven Britons and an American, and consumed 7,000 hectares.
It’s worth noting that forest fires burned nearly 400,000 hectares of land in Spain last year, the highest rate ever recorded in the country, according to the European Forest Fire Information System.