{"id":80410,"date":"2026-07-29T03:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/its-a-hell-of-a-situation-spain-grapples-with-major-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:41:49","slug":"its-a-hell-of-a-situation-spain-grapples-with-major-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/its-a-hell-of-a-situation-spain-grapples-with-major-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a hell of a situation&#8217;: Spain grapples with major wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Madrid region is currently under a red weather warning, with temperatures expected to reach 35C in mountainous areas and 38C in other parts of the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its latest update, the national government&#8217;s delegation in Madrid said the fire &#8220;remains active and uncontrolled&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s efforts will focus on surveillance and cooling the affected areas in anticipation of the forecast worsening of weather conditions,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 77,000 hectares (190,000 acres) have been affected by the fires in Spain, according to the minister for ecological transition, Sara Aagesen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The wildfire burning in the \u00c1vila area was the largest in the country&#8217;s recent history, she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In \u00c1vila, where more than 50,000 hectares have burned down since the start of the wildfires, the government&#8217;s representative said the fire had a &#8220;quite favourable&#8221; evolution overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicanor Sen, however, said there had been &#8220;small flare-ups&#8221; that were now being monitored by emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the government of Valencia lifted a lockdown order for the town of Vall D&#8217;Uixo after a fire broke out of 25 July, forcing some 16,000 from 20 municipalities to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the local council&#8217;s fire department representative, David Vicente, told the press on Tuesday afternoon that the fire remains &#8220;very active&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In neighbouring Portugal, firefighters are tackling a large fire on three active fronts in the eastern Guarda area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (Ipma) has put large parts of the country under a very high red fire alert, with some areas under the highest warning level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c235m71mrreo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madrid region is currently under a red weather warning, with temperatures expected to reach 35C in mountainous areas and 38C in other parts of the community. In its latest update, the national government&#8217;s delegation in Madrid said the fire &#8220;remains active and uncontrolled&#8221;. &#8220;Today&#8217;s efforts will focus on surveillance and cooling the affected areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80412,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80410\/revisions\/80412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}