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The Spanish language government will declare areas affected by deadly fires, which destroyed most of the northern province of Galicia as a destruction zone.
On Tuesday, Spanish firefighters still worked during the 10th day in a row to extinguish twelve different fires that burned a total of more than 3,800 kilometers of Spanish forest lands.
Fires have been one of the most destructive in the country in recent decades and continue as if, despite a decrease in temperature on the Iberian peninsula after the heat, which set a record and captured most of the south of Epirus.
Thousands of firefighters with the help of soldiers and aircraft throwing water continue to fight fires that break dry forests, which were especially serious in the north -west of Spain, where the Aemet meteorological service said that it was still “very high” or extreme. ”
Fires in Galicia destroyed small, sparsely populated cities, in many cases forcing local residents to intervene before the arrival of firefighters.
According to the Spanish Ministry of Interior, fire units from Germany arrived in Northern Spain to help in the fight against fires.
More than 20 cars have been developed to help in the fight against the ongoing fire in Jarill, Extremadur, which borders on Portugal.
On Tuesday, the prime minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez visited this area, where he spoke about the unprecedented heat that fed fires.
In recent days, Madrid reports that Galicia recorded an average daily temperature exceeding 42 degrees Celsius.
“Science tells us that common sense also tells us, especially among farmers and farmers, those who live in rural areas, that the climate is changing, that the emergency in the climate is becoming more and more repeated, more frequent and has more and more consequences,” said Sanchez.
Fires in Spain killed four people this year and burned more than 3800 square kilometers, according to the European information system of forestry of the European Union.
This area is more than twice as many metropolitan London.
Many fires were caused by human activity. The police arrested 23 people suspected of arson and investigated another 89 people.
In neighboring Portugal on Tuesday, more than 3700 firefighters challenged the flame, including four main active fires in the central and northern part of the country.
Fires in Portugal also set fire to huge areas of land. The European Observatory reports that fires in the country affected 2350 square kilometers, which also died at least two people.
This number is five times higher than two decades during this period, in the range from 2006 to 2024.
Europe was heated twice as soon as the average in the world since the 1980s, according to the service of climate change in Copernicus.
Scientists say that climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of heat and drought in some parts of Europe, which makes the region more vulnerable to fires and performing emergency actions to turn the deadly course.