Europe wildfires: more than 300,000 flee homes and holiday accommodation in France and Spain as fires rage | Wildfires
Opening summary
Hello and welcome back to our coverage of the wildfires spreading across parts of Spain and France.
Thousands of people flocked to emergency shelters in France and Spain on Sunday after wildfires affected more than 100 people. 300,000 people are forced to flee their homes and holiday destinations.
France was most affected by the fires. 42,000 Hectares of land burned due to the flames.
French officials said: 220,000 People have now been evacuated from the main bushfire in the southwest of the country.
About 55,000 people were ordered to leave surrounding villages burgundy Flames from a forest fire spread in the Gironde region at night.
In Spain, it’s over 90,000 people were evacuated from surrounding areas Madrid And AvilaWhile the fires continue to spread there. Spanish authorities recently ordered new evacuations toledoSouthwest of Madrid.
Residents of Buenaventura, Navamorcuende, Real de San Vicente, Hinojosa de San Vicente, Castillo de Bayuela, Garciotum, Nuno Gomez and Pelahustan were told to leave their homes, the interior ministry said.
On Saturday evening, Spain’s interior ministry said a man died in a fire in Manises, Valencia. Authorities said he was found in a car in a ravine.
The fires destroyed homes, displaced large numbers of people and triggered one of the largest civilian evacuation operations carried out in peacetime in France; Major fires still rage in both countries.
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As my colleagues note in this story, scientists say climate disruption is triggering more frequent and more extreme weather events, evaporating lands and waterways, fueling wildfires and causing thousands of excess deaths. Europe is warming at nearly twice the global average.
French interior minister Laurent Nuñez He gave an interview to La TribuneIt was published on Sunday.
Asked why it was so difficult to control fires like the one in the Gironde region in southwestern France, he said this year’s drought, heatwaves, high winds and “abundant vegetation” meant fires spread “very quickly” once they started. “Therefore, it is necessary to intervene as quickly as possible,” he said.
According to authorities, fires have closed at least 37 sections of road this morning in Madrid, Ávila, Toledo, Castellón, Guadalajara, Huelva and Teruel.
Bordeaux council is considering complete evacuation of the city if necessary
As we noted in the opening article, approximately 55,000 people were ordered to leave villages around Bordeaux, France, overnight as the fire continued to spread.
Bordeaux city council spokesman he told Sky News That means “currently working on scenarios for all possible ways the fire could develop,” including a complete evacuation of the city if necessary.
Bordeaux mayor Thomas Cazenave said the fire was “at the gates of the metropolitan area.”
According to authorities, forest fires continue to burn in Spain, in the Madrid region and in the province of Ávila, near the capital.
Wildfires burned approx. 24,000 hectares inside Madrid region And 21,000 hectares inside Avila, According to Spanish newspaper El Mundoled to mass evacuations.
Spain has evacuated tens of thousands of people from villages west of Madrid, where extremely dry conditions have been worsened by heat waves and strong winds.
On 30,000 people More than 1 person evacuated from Ávila5,000 in the east Castellón Province of Spain.
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Spain declared a national emergency for the first time due to a forest fire.
France’s evacuations “probably” constitute the largest peacetime evacuation the country has ever seen, the interior minister said.
Hundreds of firefighters have worked to contain the fires, fueled by persistent heatwaves and the climate crisis, but have still been unable to stop their advance.
French government calls on army for help, It deployed 1,500 soldiers and sent 1.5-meter face masks to help protect people from smoke inhalation.
Nearly 220,000 people have been evacuated from the main wildfire threatening the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France.According to French officials.
The latest evacuations took place in villages around Bordeaux, with 60 km (37 miles) of the main A63 motorway from Bordeaux to the Spanish border closed due to fires, regional authorities said.
Some photographs emerging from France and Spain paint a dramatic picture of the developing crisis:
Authorities in France’s Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, issued an overnight evacuation order for five more regions. including some of the city’s approaches.
In the statement, it was stated that strong winds fed the flames throughout the night and accelerated the spread of the fire, which has been out of control since mid-week.
Opening summary
Hello and welcome back to our coverage of the wildfires spreading across parts of Spain and France.
Thousands of people flocked to emergency shelters in France and Spain on Sunday after wildfires affected more than 100 people. 300,000 people are forced to flee their homes and holiday destinations.
France was most affected by the fires. 42,000 Hectares of land burned due to the flames.
French officials said: 220,000 People have now been evacuated from the main bushfire in the southwest of the country.
About 55,000 people were ordered to leave surrounding villages burgundy Flames from a forest fire spread in the Gironde region at night.
In Spain, it’s over 90,000 people were evacuated from surrounding areas Madrid And AvilaWhile the fires continue to spread there. Spanish authorities recently ordered new evacuations toledoSouthwest of Madrid.
Residents of Buenaventura, Navamorcuende, Real de San Vicente, Hinojosa de San Vicente, Castillo de Bayuela, Garciotum, Nuno Gomez and Pelahustan were told to leave their homes, the interior ministry said.
On Saturday evening, Spain’s interior ministry said a man died in a fire in Manises, Valencia. Authorities said he was found in a car in a ravine.
The fires destroyed homes, displaced large numbers of people, and triggered one of the largest civilian evacuation operations carried out in peacetime in France; Major fires still rage in both countries.
