Spain, Portugal, and Greece battle wildfires

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal and Greece continue to fight fires as permanent hot, dry conditions challenge their efforts to include flames.

According to Virginia Barcones, General Manager of Emergency Services, Spain was fighting 14 big fire.

Temperatures were expected to climb the weekend.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, “Today will be a very difficult day, with the risk of extreme new fire,” he wrote X.

Aemet, the National Weather Agency, warned that most of the country, including the largest flames burned in the North and West, about the risk of over -fire.

This month, a heat wave, which brings temperatures exceeding 40 degrees in a few days, was expected to last until Monday.

Fires in the Galicia region forced the closure of several highways.

The high -speed railway line connecting to Madrid, the capital of Spain, was suspended.

According to the European Union’s European Forest Fire Information System, fires in Spain burned 158,000 hectares this year.

This is roughly as big as the metropolitan London.

It was a feast of a great Catholic holiday in both Spain and Portugal, which was often marked with family meetings and religious regiments.

In Portugal, about 4,000 firefighters were fighting fire on Friday.

Seven big fire were active.

Authorities, in the midst of high temperatures expected to continue at the weekend, expanded the warning until Sunday.

A forest fire in Greece was out of control during the fourth day on Chios and allegedly evacuated for several nights.

Local authorities said that a recession in the high winds helped firefighters early on Friday, and two helicopters dripping two water in the north of the island in the Eastern Aegean Sea.

At the beginning of this week, after a series of major fire in Western Greece, the fire department gave alarm on Friday, except Athens and in the south of the country, an alarm in which adverse weather conditions raised the risk of fire.