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‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ as Spain starts lifting wildfire evacuation orders

News Desk28th July 202629th July 2026

28th July 202629th July 2026529

Spain has begun lifting evacuation and lockdown orders across several wildfire-hit regions after firefighters made significant progress in containing some of the country’s most destructive...

Wildfire emergency deepens as royals visit evacuees and new Valencia blaze forces thousands to flee

News Desk26th July 202630th July 2026

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Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited evacuees from the country’s devastating wildfires on Sunday, praising the ‘exemplary coordination’ of the emergency response as...

Guardia Civil arrest tractor driver over alleged negligence as Spain’s wildfire crisis deepens

News Desk26th July 202629th July 2026

26th July 202629th July 20261812

Spanish police have arrested a tractor driver accused of sparking one of the devastating wildfires that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee...

Spain faces escalating wildfire crisis as Sánchez warns climate emergency cannot be ignored

News Desk22nd July 202624th July 2026

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Spain’s largest wildfire of the year has now burned more than 32,000 hectares in the central province of Guadalajara (Castilla-La Mancha), becoming one of the biggest blazes...

Spain’s largest wildfire of 2026 spreads beyond 26,000 hectares as new heatwave fuels fears

News Desk20th July 202622nd July 2026

20th July 202622nd July 20262681

Spain’s biggest wildfire of the year continued to burn out of control for a fifth consecutive day on Monday, destroying more than 26,000 hectares of...

More than 12,000 hectares destroyed as Aragón faces escalating wildfire crisis

News Desk17th July 202620th July 2026

17th July 202620th July 20261651

A wildfire that has been burning across northeastern Spain for the past two days has grown into one of the Aragón region’s largest and most...

Sánchez praises firefighters and calls for climate action as identification of wildfire victims begins

News Desk13th July 202620th July 2026

13th July 202620th July 2026916

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the scene of one of Spain’s deadliest wildfires in recent history on Monday, calling for a national commitment to...

Death toll from Almeria wildfire reaches 13 after elderly British woman succumbs to her injuries

News Desk13th July 202615th July 2026

13th July 202615th July 2026665

A 93-year-old British woman has died from injuries sustained in the devastating wildfire that tore through the municipality of Los Gallardos in the Almeria province...

At least 12 dead as devastating wildfire tears through southern Spain during heatwave

News Desk10th July 202612th July 2026

10th July 202612th July 20261630

LATEST: Almeria wildfire stabilised as investigators work to identify victims and missing. A devastating wildfire that swept through a hamlet in southern Spain has killed...

Firefighters contain much of Costa Brava wildfire after tourists evacuated and thousands confined

News Desk3rd July 20266th July 2026

3rd July 20266th July 20263760

Update: On Sunday the regional Catalan government lifted the lockdown that had confined 12,000 residents to their homes as firefighters contained the blaze that had...

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