Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat | Wildfires

While the Prime Minister calls the prime minister to “exclude the climate emergencies out of their partisan struggles ,, one quarter of the air stations in Spain records 40C temperatures, ruthless heat and violent fires continue to demolish Southern Europe.

Spanish Air Agency Aemet recorded 45.8 ° C in Cádiz on Sunday.

“Although Heatwave begins to decrease, very high temperatures will be reached in the east and south of the peninsula today,” he said. “Be careful.”

After a firefighter truck overturned on a steep forest road, a fourth person was killed by fires in Spain, exposed to extreme heat in the neighboring Portugal, another firefighter died and brought the national death fee to two.

The Spanish government said in a statement on Sunday, said that extra 500 soldiers will participate in 1,400 soldiers trying to control deadly fires. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a “state agreement ve to cope with the climate emergency and visited Ourense and León, one of the regions swallowed by flames.

Sánchez said, ız We need a better, safer and more equal response for our other citizens in the face of the deteriorating and accelerating effects of the climate emergency in our country, ”Sánchez said.

“And this requires a great state agreement that we focus on scientific evidence and act accordingly, which excludes the climate emergencies out of partisan struggles and ideological issues.”

Excessive heat, which was made warmer with carbon pollution, fueled destructive fires in southern Europe this month, and the latest, in the midst of the continental return of green policies, worsened with climate collapse.

This year, Blazes has burned 530,000 hectares so far, more than twice the average in the last twenty years and forced a few crushed government to seek fire extinguishing aid from Spain to Bulgaria.

Portugal has activated the EU’s civil protection mechanism on Friday with the demand of four Canadair water bombardment.

The long -term heat wave has broken temperature recordings on the continent. He is expected to die in Spain after Monday and fell to some countries during the weekend.

National Air Agency Météo France said that temperatures fell on Sunday, but the risk of forest fire remained high or too high in several regions in the southern half of the country.

“The country’s Mediterranean and South-West parts are experiencing significant droughts, which means that the vegetation is very sensitive to the fire,” the agency said in a statement on Sunday. He said.

In Portugal, which has been under warning since the beginning of the month, large rural fires killed two people and caused several injuries.

According to the Portuguese media, Interior Minister Maria Lúcia Amaral expanded the forest fire warning until Sunday until Sunday, but left the press conference when journalists tried to ask questions. Far Right Chega Party President André Ventura asked for his resignation. “We reach the limit of acceptable,” he said on Sunday.

In a radio interview on Monday morning, the Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles said that the fire wave was not possible to control the fires until then on Monday.

Robles told Cadena Ser in a statement, “Heatwave will not end this situation until he dies,” he said. “We see fires with different characteristics due to climate change.”

He said that the Military Emergency Situations Unit (UME), which was established to help cope with disasters, has never faced such challenging conditions.

“We see a fire situation that has never been seen before. Ume has not seen anything like this since it was founded 20 years ago.”