Joaquín Ramírez of Technosylva, a Spanish company that specialises in prevention and response to wildfires, attributed this year’s litany of fires to “a combination of abandonment of rural areas, abandonment of managing [the land] and the stress exerted on our forest areas”.

The fire was brought under control overnight, after a blaze in the Tres Cantos area killed one person and prompted evacuations, the authorities said.View on euronews

A wildfire that broke out on Monday, August 11, near Madrid in the Tres Cantos area, killed one person and forced the evacuation of 180 residents. The blaze, fueled by a record-breaking heatwave affecting Spain and Portugal,

Spain is preparing for a national emergency as wildfires sweep across southern Europe after days of relentless heat.

MADRID (Reuters) -Firefighters have contained a wildfire near the Spanish capital Madrid, in the Tres Cantos area, which injured one person and prompted the evacuation of 180 people, regional authorities said on Tuesday.

MADRID - Firefighters have contained a wildfire near the Spanish capital Madrid, in the Tres Cantos area, which killed one person and prompted the evacuation of 180 people, regional authorities said on Tuesday.

A deadly wildfire near Madrid has claimed one life and forced the evacuation of hundreds, as flames raced across 6 kilometers in just 40 minutes. The blaze, centered in the Tres Cantos area, destroyed homes,

A second volunteer firefighter has died after battling a wildfire in the northern Spanish province of Leon, while police arrested a man for allegedly starting a separate blaze as the country faced one of its worst summers for fires in 20 years.