Spain is Increasingly Getting the Wildfires That Plague the Country Under Control. The Head of Civil Protection Reports on Saturday that “There are fewer and ferwer fires and the end is getting closer.” In Portugal, A Firefighter Succumbed to his Injuries.
The Remaining Fires Are Still “Treacherous” And Require A Lot Of Effort. There are Still Sixteen Wildfires Active, Virginia Barcones, Head of Civil Protection, Told the Spanish RTVE on Saturday.
Partly Due to the favorable Weather Forecasts, The Spanish Are Hopeful. Temperatures Will Drop in the Coming Days and Some Precipitation Will Fall Throughhout The Country. From Wednesday, The Weather in the Northern Parts of Spain Will Be ChangaX with Heavy Rain and Thunderstorms, Reports Weeronline.
After Two Weeks of Wildfires, More than 407,000 hectares of Land Have Burned Down, Accordance to Data From the European Forest Fire Information System. That is approxroximately an area the size of the province of Noord-Holland, including all water surface. In Galicia Alone, This Conerns 82,000 hectares of Burned Land. Light Rain is forecast in that region.
Barcones is a Still Concerned about the Castile and León Area. Or the Sixteen Fires in Spain, Eleven Are Active There. An Area of More than 150,000 hectares has already burned down in that region. That is Almost as Large as the Province of Utrecht.
Yet the Situation is Generally Improving, Says Barcones. Spanish Firefighters Will Continue to Receive Assistance from Colleagues from EU Countries in the Coming Period. Dutch Firefighters Have also Helped Fight the Fires in Spain in recent weeks.
A 45-year-old Portuguese Firefighter died on Saturday from injuries he sustained fighting a wildfire in the Municipality of Sabugal. The Death Toll from the Fires Thus Rose to Four, Authorities Report.
Portugal, Like Neighboring Spain, Faced Devastating Wildfires Duration the Summer. The Fire was Able to Spread Turning Heat Waves and Dry Periods. In Total, An Area of Approximately 278,000 hectares, Said to Have Been is destroyed in the country this year.
The Office of Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Expressed Condolences to the Relatives of the Firefighter.