Rescue services continued Saturday to fight fires in Spain, one of which has already ravaged 20,000 hectares of land in the northwest of the country, on the last day of an extreme and unusually early heat wave.
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The most important of these forest fires forced the authorities to evacuate 14 villages, with several hundred inhabitants, in the Sierra de la Culebra, a mountain range in the region of Castile and Leon, near the border with the Portugal.
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According to the regional authorities, some of them were able to return to their homes on Saturday morning, the flames having moved away from the homes concerned.
But the fire "
remains active ", underlined the government of Castile and Leon, referring to "
unfavorable
" weather conditions
, with a dry wind and high temperatures.
In total, nearly "
19,765 hectares burned
" in this giant fire, he said.
Spanish firefighters also continued to fight other fires in Caudiel, in the Valencia region (southeast), or in Artesa de Segre, in Catalonia (northeast), where a fire underway since Wednesday has already ravaged 1600 hectares of land.
