Three fires that remain active this Friday in the provinces of Zaragoza, Guadalajara, and the Community of Madrid have burned 15,000 hectares so far. The fire in the Aragonese municipality of Orés, which started on Wednesday, has devastated 12,000 hectares and caused dramatic moments during the night. The situation in the town of Uncastillo, surrounded by flames, is especially concerning. The third vice president of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, will visit the Advanced Command Post today to get a close look at the fire situation. In the northern sierra of Guadalajara, another fire that started in La Mierla has burned 2,000 hectares and forced the evacuation of six municipalities and the activation of the UME. In the Community of Madrid, the fire in Lozoyuela has already burned more than 700 hectares and forced the confinement of affected areas in the municipalities of Buitrago de Lozoya and Puentes Viejas. The Civil Guard has arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of the flames.
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The stifling heat keeps seven communities on alert
Seven communities in the southern and eastern half of the peninsula — Andalusia, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Valencian Community, and Region of Murcia — remain on alert for high temperatures, with special impact in Andalusia and Murcia, at orange level due to highs of up to 42 degrees.
In Andalusia, there is an orange alert (significant danger) in Málaga, where thermometers will reach 39 degrees in parts of Sol and Guadalhorce. In the rest of the Andalusian provinces, the alert is yellow (low danger) with values ranging between 37 and 39 degrees. The Region of Murcia, also on orange alert, will reach between 39 and 42 degrees in areas of the Vega del Segura, the Guadalentín valley, Campo de Cartagena, Mazarrón, Lorca, and Águilas.
In the communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands, and Catalonia, as well as in the province of Albacete in Castilla-La Mancha, and in Alicante and Valencia in the Valencian Community, a yellow alert has been activated for values ranging between 34 and 39 degrees.
Aemet warns that with the orange alert there is significant risk in unusual meteorological phenomena and for usual activities. (Efe)
Forest fires
The Lozoyuela fire has already burned more than 700 hectares while the Civil Guard keeps the alleged perpetrator detained
The forest fire declared this Thursday in the Madrid municipality of Lozoyuela has already burned more than 700 hectares and remains “very active,” neither “contained nor much less stabilized,” according to the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, who explained this on Friday on Cadena SER. After a night of uninterrupted work, the regional executive official indicated that the southern flank remains the most compromised and expressed hope that the deployment of ground and air resources will allow control of the flames throughout the morning, before the wind picks up again.
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Forest fires
Six municipalities evacuated due to the fire in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, which has already burned 2,000 hectares
The forest fire that started Thursday afternoon in La Mierla, in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, has already caused 260 evacuations and about 2,000 hectares burned. To the 40 residents of La Mierla evacuated yesterday, add 60 from Muriel, 20 from Semillas, 20 from Almiruete, 30 from La Nava de Jadraque, five people from Palancares, and 47 minors and seven counselors from a children’s camp in Umbralejo.
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Forest fires
The fire in the Aragonese municipality of Orés devastates 12,000 hectares threatening Uncastillo
“Some people have slept, but very little, because we are very nervous.” The night has been tough, inside and outside the pavilion and the casino of Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza), where more than a thousand residents evacuated from five towns in the Cinco Villas region, in the same province, and one from Navarra (Petilla), continue at this hour due to the fire that broke out in Orés last Wednesday. The flames have already devastated 12,000 hectares and the fight to contain them has caused very difficult moments in recent hours to save the town of Uncastillo, surrounded by flames.
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Good morning. Here begins the live narration of the fires in Spain this Friday. There are three fires that remain especially active and worry the authorities. The fire in the Aragonese municipality of Orés, which started on Wednesday, has devastated 12,000 hectares and caused dramatic moments during the night. The situation in the town of Uncastillo, surrounded by flames, is concerning. In the northern sierra of Guadalajara, another fire has burned 2,000 hectares and forced the evacuation of six municipalities. In the Community of Madrid, the fire in Lozoyuela has already burned more than 700 hectares and forced the confinement of affected areas in the municipalities of Buitrago de Lozoya and Puentes Viejas. The Civil Guard has arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator.
