The situation improved this Sunday in the face of forest fires in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, where more than 4,000 ha have burned for a week, including a thousand since the day before.
Firefighters were on their way to controlling the most worrying fire on Sunday, the one near Boiro.
The fire could be contained on Sunday to a limited perimeter and "is moving favorably towards its stabilization", announced the regional government.
At the end of the week of intense heat and not a taste of lluvia in the horizon, Galicia lucha este sábado contra siete incendios que suman ya más de 3.000 ha arrasadas https://t.co/RuTGAs8NlT
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Firefighters also managed to contain another large fire, near Puente Caldelas, 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.
Since the beginning of the year, 367 forest fires have destroyed more than 235,000 ha 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.
