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Spain, Portugal battle to control huge wildfires

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August 17, 2022, 9:30 am
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Spain and neighbouring Portugal fought against large wildfires on Tuesday, while three people were badly injured after their train hurtled into a smaller Spanish blaze.

Members of the Forest Fires Reinforcement Brigades (BRIF) work to put out a wildfire in the Moncayo Natural Park, near the village of Borja, in the northern region of Aragon on August 15, 2022. – Firefighters today were battling strong winds trying to fight a huge forest fire blazing out of control in southeastern Spain as another in the north was stabilised. Both fires broke out late on August 13, with more than 350 firefighters engaged in battling the wildfire in the northern Aragon region that has so far burnt through an area of 6,000 hectares forcing at least 1,500 people from their homes. Ander Gillenea / AFP

Some 300 firefighters spent a difficult night battling a huge wildfire in southeastern Spain that has burnt through nearly 10,000 hectares in an area notoriously difficult to access, officials said Tuesday.

The fire began when lightning hit the Vall de Ebo area in Valencia late Saturday and has since spread rapidly, fuelled by strong winds, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,500 people, regional authorities said.

“At the moment, we are talking about more than 9,500 hectares (235,000 acres) burnt with a perimeter of 65 kilometres (40 miles),” regional president Ximo Puig said late Monday, describing the blaze as “absolutely huge”.

“It’s a very complicated situation… The fire is creating enormous difficulties that are absolutely impossible to tackle with the speed we would like.”

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Regional interior minister Gabriela Bravo told Antena 3 television some 300 firefighters were battling the flames, backed by 24 planes and helicopters.

Firefighters elsewhere in the region were also battling two other wildfires north of Valencia city, with hundreds of firefighters and at least 10 firefighting planes engaged in the operation, officials said.

Three people were badly wounded after the train they were riding on ran into flames.

“Three people suffered bad burn injuries,” the regional health authorities said, adding one had to be evacuated by helicopter to hospital. More than eight others were lightly injured, they added.

Further north, firefighters in the Aragon region were battling another major blaze that broke out Saturday and has burnt more than 6,000 hectares of land, forcing at least 1,500 people from their homes.

Meanwhile, a huge wildfire in central Portugal that raged for a week in a UNESCO-designated natural park and was finally brought under control on Friday night, flared up again Tuesday, the civil protection authority said. 

More than 1,200 firefighters had been drafted in to tackle the blaze, which has already consumed some 15,000 hectares and was “burning fiercely” with the flames whipped up by strong winds, the authority said.

Worse than 2021

So far this year, Spain has suffered 391 wildfires, fuelled by scorching temperatures and drought conditions, which have destroyed a total of 271,020 hectares of land, according to the latest figures from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).

This year’s fires in Spain have been particularly devastating, destroying more than three times the area consumed by wildfires in the whole of 2021, which amounted to 84,827 hectares, the figures show.

Portugal has suffered 195 wildfires so far this year, which have ravaged 84,717 hectares of land, EFFIS figures show. 

Scientists say human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events, including heatwaves and droughts, more frequent and intense. They in turn increase the risk of fires, which emit climate-heating greenhouse gases.

Fires have blazed across Europe, particularly in France, Greece and Portugal, making 2022 a record year for wildfires on the continent.

The blaze in Portugal’s Serra da Estrela natural park started on August 6 outside the central town of Covilha and authorities have deployed 373 fire engines and 12 planes and helicopters to bolster firefighters’ attempts to tame it.

The blaze has so far left three people seriously hurt and 19 others less seriously while 45 people have been evacuated as a precaution since Monday as Portugal battles its worst forest fires since 2017 when some 100 lives were lost.  

Portugal’s civil protection agency head Andre Fernandes warned of the probability the fire would spread and said attempts to stabilise it were liable to be hampered by wind.

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