Two more dead as Spanish troops battle blazes

Spain sent 500 more troops to fight Arging Wildfires, and the death money from Blazes rose to four, brought the total of 1 to 1,900.

Kastilya and León Regional Government, Sunday, said that the truck died after an accident during an accident during firefighters, where the truck fell to a steep hill.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, X in the last death X “sadness” and “desolation” expressed.

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said another firefighter was killed in a “tragic” traffic accident in Portugal, where the fires were burned.

Fires exploded in Greece, France, Türkiye and the Balkans, because a heat wave roasted in Southern Europe.

There are still a few big fire in the northwest and west of Spain, where 27,000 calm is now evacuated from their homes.

Castile and León are the most affected area, the local media station Radio 5 reports that the weather is “non -obscure” due to smoke on Monday.

A fire in the state of Western Cáceres was still out of control and burned 11,000 hectares (27,181 acres).

In the northwestern region of Galicia, in most of the states of Ourence, the largest burned 17,500 hectares.

At least five people were injured in Fires Castile and León on Sunday and four were critical.

Last week, two volunteers died of fire in Leon. After a fire, another man died in Tres Cantos near Madrid.

According to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), only 343,000 hectares burned in Spain this year – close to twice the previous year.

At the weekend, Spain’s civilian guard, a Coruña in the Galician region, said they proposed “sanctions” to four people to carry out unauthorized burns.

Causing a forest fire is a criminal offense in Spain, even if it is accidental.

The neighbor Portugal, since the end of July, had to fight forest fires, the country’s northern and center hit the most difficult.

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa conveyed the “deepest sympathies” to the mourning family of the firefighter killed in an accident on Sunday. The other two firefighters were injured.

In 2025 Effis reported that Portugal’s forest fires burned approximately 216,000 hectares of soil.

Spain and Portugal activated the European civil protection mechanism, where countries can demand emergency assistance.

Firefighters were sent from other countries to fight fires in Spain, and both countries will receive two fires.

Forest fires are widespread in Southern Europe in the summer, but their intensity can usually worse with heat wave conditions.

Meteorologists say that such extremists are more frequently and intensified due to human -based climate change.

According to research by the Spanish state meteorological agency, climate change causes the weather to be harder.