Wildfires proceed to burn throughout farmlands in northern Spain

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11/08/2025 – 14:37 GMT+2

A number of wildfires have been wreaking havoc in Spain, significantly in northern areas as record-breaking temperatures proceed to hit southern Europe. Hundreds of individuals had been evacuated from their properties within the affected areas, as efforts to extinguish the flames proceed.

Tinder dry situations and robust winds have made battling the fires tougher. Authorities have blocked off roads in close by cities and small villages in a bid to include the unfold of the wildfires.

Within the small city of Molezuelas de Carballeda in Zamora, Army Emergency Unit personnel labored in a single day into Monday to deal with the blazes. The hearth was spreading quickly and had reached an agriculture enterprise, affecting a greenhouse and a number of other outhouses.

Residents of the village of Carucedo, within the province of Castilla Leon, had been evacuated over the weekend because the fires reached the residential areas of the municipality. Officers mentioned the winds are serving to carry the flame farther and proceed to pose a severe menace.

Six wildfires have engulfed the province which firefighters are nonetheless engaged on extinguishing. The world stays on excessive alert on account of two of these fires being inside vital distance of inhabited zones.

Officers say 30,000 folks had been evacuated from the small village of Yeres as fires proceed to inch nearer.

Further sources • AP, EBU