The situation has improved in the face of forest fires in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, where more than 4,000 hectares have burned for a week, and firefighters were on track Sunday to control the largest of them. them, authorities said.
The most worrying fire, the one near Boiro, which since Thursday has burned 2,200 hectares, could be circumcised on Sunday to a limited perimeter and "
is evolving favorably towards its stabilization
", announced the regional government.
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Firefighters also managed to contain another large fire, near Puentecaldelas, and authorities lowered the alert level in the area.
Spain has been experiencing its third wave of heat waves for a week, but temperatures began to drop on Sunday, even if the thermometer still reached 37° in Valencia (Mediterranean side, southern Catalonia) and in the Balearic Islands.
Firefighters try to put out a forest fire near the village of Verin, in northwestern Spain, on August 4, 2022 MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
Since the beginning of the year, 367 forest fires have destroyed more than 235,000 hectares in Spain, the highest figure for a country in the European Union, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). .
The resurgence of these heat waves is, according to experts, a direct consequence of global warming, which increases their intensity, duration and frequency.
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