The wave of fires that has affects Spain for days does not give truce and continues to spread. The maximum concern is still focused especially in Castilla y León and in the province of Ourense, to which a fire in Jarilla (Cáceres) is added that remains uncontrolled. Spain requested a module with two high capacity tank aircraft of more than 5,500 liters each on Thursday night to combat fire extinction in “very difficult” situations that could be derived from adverse meteorology.
Castilla y León
One of the main foci is in Castilla y León, where there are at least 15 active fires –12 of them in the Leon province– And with more than 8,000 evacuated in León. There is also a deceased: Abel Ramos, a 35 -year -old man who participated as a volunteer in extinction work. 10 people have also been injured, four of them in critical condition.
The fires that worry most are those of Molezuelas, in Zamora; that of Resoba, in Palencia; and Yeres, in León. The latter is the fire that has completely devastated the Natural Space of Médulas. Zamora's is already the worst fire in the history of Spain since 1968, the year in which official statistics begin.
More than 30,000 hectares burned between Zamora and León
Fuente: Copernicus
In turn, the other important fire of the province of Zamora, that of Puerques, has changed direction due to the strong wind and is now heading northwest towards the Sierra de la Culebra. In the province of Salamanca, a level 1 fire has been declared in San Cristóbal de los Mochuelos and is controlled from 5 pm that declared in La Bastida.
Galicia
Six fires remain active in Galicia. The wave of non -control fire that ravages the community advances with more than 19,000 hectares razed only in the province of Ourense and leaves evacuations due to threat to houses, confinements and several injured. The largest fire is declared in Chandrexa de Queixa, which has already razed 5,000 hectares and which keeps the maximum emergency situation declared at the provincial level. The Maceda-Santiso has reached 1,700 and is also at the highest emergency level.
In the fire of Chandrexa de Queixa, which is the largest so summer in Galicia, the regional troops have joined the UME. This fire already adds more affected surface that all occurred in the Galician community in 2024. In addition, at least three firefighters have been injured.
The circulation of high-speed trains of the Madrid-Galicia line was interrupted on Wednesday due to the proximity of a fire in the railway infrastructure in Ourense. The forecast is that it can resume this Thursday if the fire is controlled, but there is still no more information from Renfe.
The Civil Guard investigates in Muxía (A Coruña) a 63 -year -old woman from that town in relation to her possible involvement in five fires in recent days.
Estremadura
In Extremadura it has affected the fire that originated in Toledo, in Navalmoralejo. Of the 3,250 total hectares that have burned, some 2,400 have been in Cáceres.
To the north of this province there is another active serious fire, in the town of Jarilla, which remains uncontrolled and, according to the first estimates, has already burned an area of more than 1,200 hectares. To the land work that has been during the night, the aerial media will be joined from Thursday morning. The Board of Extremadura has activated the serious situation of the Infocam Plan, has sent an alert through the ES-Alert system in the municipality of Cabezabelosa and have evacuated all the inhabitants that remained in the area, as confirmed by the extreme president María Guardiola in X.
There are also two fireworks: in Casares de las Hurdes and Santibáñez El Alto. A total of 110 EMU troops are working on extinction work. “Specifically there are 110 people from the UME and work, there were 11 active fires yesterday, and the UME will try to attack the most dangerous, specifically that of Jarilla and one in Casares de las Hurdes,” said the Government delegate in Extremadura, José Luis Quintana.
Castilla-La Mancha
The favorable evolution of the fires allowed the preventive measures for Navalmolalejo, La Estrella and Calera and Chozas to lift Wednesday.
The forest fire declared on Monday in Navalmolalejo, in Toledo, has calcined 3,250 hectares, 75% of them however in the province of Cáceres. The fire descended shortly before 9 am on Wednesday at the operational situation level 0, after 40 hours of work in a time space in which it became at the maximum risk level. According to Infocam, the confinement orders of both the town and the nearby municipality of La Estrella have been raised.
Nine terrestrial media and 45 firefighters continue working in the area. There have not been losses, human or material damage, beyond some homemade farms.
On the other hand, the forest fire that affected the Toledo town of Calera y Chozas has devastated about 3,000 hectares, which have been completely perimeter this Wednesday and whose alert level has been reduced to zero before 4:00 p.m.
Asturias
Asturias has registered ten active fires until Wednesday, three of them in the Council of Cangas del Narcea, which has been the most important focus. Even so, it is already stabilized and, although there are still active eight focuses in points of the Asturian southwest, European and Cordillera Picos, the concern now focuses on two fires that advance from the province of León to the Principality. In the next few hours a hundred members of the UME will be displayed by the Principality.
Valencian Community
The Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat Valenciana has requested the intervention of the Military Emergency Unit in the Forest Fire that has been declared on Wednesday afternoon in the municipality of Teresa de Cofrentes (Valencia) after the impact of lightning. In addition, two districts have been evicted by caution: that of El Gason and another close to the Argonge Rambla. The Cecopi has raised the situation of the special plan against the risk of forest fires of the Valencian Community to the possible affectation to the population and goods of a non -forest nature.
Community of Madrid
A low vegetation fire in Torrelodones forced to evacuate a town urbanization and several firefighters have managed to prevent the fire from approaching the houses after evicting their occupants. The fire in the municipality of Tres Cantos, which began on Monday, was controlled on Tuesday night. The fire has affected 2,000 hectares and a mortal victim has been charged: a 50 -year -old man of Romanian origin, who tried to save dozens of horses.
The flames spread rapidly due to the strong wind and forced the eviction of about 200 neighbors of nearby urbanizations, who have already been able to return to their homes. Six cooling equipment remains in place and the authorities explain that it is possible that “a large part of tree vegetation can survive.”
Andalusia
The two fires declared in Andalusia – the rate in Cádiz and that of Jabugo in Huelva – have been controlled. The infoca is stabilized by the first, which calcined 300 hectares and forced to evacuate more than 2,000 people. They have installed five pumps, a medical unit and several technical groups to control that it does not set again. The Minister of the Presidency and Interior of the Junta de Andalucía, Antonio Sanz, has affirmed that the return of all people evicted due to the fire has been completed and valued that there has been no “significant material damage and without damage to the health of people”. “This seems like a miracle after seeing how the flames were practically on the houses,” he said.
The flames affected the Sierra de la Plata place, very close to the urbanization of Atlanterra and the beach of the Germans. The residents of the town of Zahara de los Atunes have turned to the people who were evacuated. The authorities contemplate the possibility that the fire has been caused.
The infoca also stabilized the fire of Jabugo, caused by the fall of lightning in the village of the pilgrims, and has authorized the return of 240 people to their homes. The mayor of the town has thanked the “rapid performance” of the specialists and highlighted the role of neighborhood support in the extinction of fire.
