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About 300 firefighters spent a difficult night battling a massive blaze in southeastern Spain that has scorched nearly 10,000 hectares in an area notoriously difficult to access, officials said on Tuesday.
The blaze began when lightning struck the Vall de Ebo area in the province of Alicante on Saturday evening and has since spread rapidly, fueled by strong winds, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,000 people, according to the regional government of Valencia.
“It’s been a very complicated night,” regional interior minister Gabriela Bravo told 300 firefighters were battling the flames, backed by 24 planes and helicopters.
“Right now we are talking about more than 9,500 hectares burned with a perimeter of 65 kilometers (40 miles),” regional president Ximo Puig said Monday, calling the fire “absolutely huge.”
“It’s a very complicated situation… The fire is creating enormous difficulties that it is absolutely impossible to manage as quickly as we would like.
Firefighters from other parts of the region were also battling two other blazes north of the city of Valencia, with hundreds of firefighters and at least 10, firefighters engaged in the operation, officials said.
Further north, firefighters in the Aragon region were hoping to control another major blaze that broke out on Saturday and burned more than 6,000 hectares of land, forcing at least 1,500 people to flee their homes.
Spain has suffered 391 fires so far this year, fueled by scorching temperatures and drought conditions, which have destroyed a total of 271,020 hectares of land, according to the latest data from the European Forest Fire Information System. This year’s fires in Spain have been particularly devastating, demolishing more than three times the area consumed by fires in all of 2021, which stood at 84,827 hectares, the data shows.
Scientists say human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events, including heat waves and droughts, more frequent and intense. In turn, they increase the risk of fires, which emit greenhouse gases to warm the climate.
Fires raged across Europe, including France, Greece, and Portugal, making 2022 a record year for fires on the continent.
In Portugal, a wildfire brought under control last week reignited Tuesday in the UNESCO-designated Serra da Estrela natural park, they said.
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