Fires: a fire goes back to Extremadura, 500 people evacuated
(AFP) - 4 hours ago
MADRID - Most of the fires that have devastated more than 20.000 hectares of vegetation in the past week in Spain were under control or on the way to Monday, with the exception of the fire declared in Extremadura, where 500 people were evacuated overnight .
The fire in the Hurdes region in Extremadura (center-west), which seemed to be under control on Sunday, "started again" overnight, around 03:20 (01:20 GMT), because of "strong gusts of wind", the government said. regional in a press release.
The fire, which burned more than 500 hectares of vegetation, forced about 500 people to evacuate overnight from several neighboring localities, the statement said.
In the province of Teruel (northeast), in Aragon, the most affected by the fires with more than 11.700 hectares gone up in smoke for a week, the six declared outbreaks were not yet extinct on Monday, but none more progressed, A spokesman for the regional government told AFP.
Three outbreaks are under control and three others on the verge of being controlled, said the spokesman.
"They could be checked overnight because we are waiting for a favorable weather situation," he added.
Twenty-four Spanish provinces were placed on alert Monday because of high temperatures expected during the day, especially in Andalusia (south), where the thermometer is expected to exceed 40 ° Celsius.
In the region of Valencia (east), the fires that hit the province of Castellon in particular have stabilized since Sunday. A total of 1.586 hectares were burned in this region.
The fires that affected the province of Cuenca, east of Castile-La Mancha (center), are also under control and burned between 2.000 and 3.000 hectares.
In Andalusia (south), the fire in Mojacar, in the province of Almeria, was brought under control on Saturday afternoon, after having covered around 2.600 hectares.
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