Thousands in Spain return home but new heatwave raises wildfire fears
Thousands in Spain return home but new heatwave raises wildfire fears - Published Spanish authorities have allowed thousands of people evacuated because...
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- Thousands in Spain return home but new heatwave raises wildfire fears - Published Spanish authorities have allowed thousands of people evacuated because of wildfires to return to their homes after restrictions were lifted in the areas of Toledo, Madrid, Ávila, and Castellón.
- In the Madrid region alone, 24,000 people have been told they can return and lockdowns on another 20,000 have been lifted.
- Spain and France are both braced for the start of the fourth heatwave so far this summer and some fires have continued to burn, including one at Burgohondo 150km (93 miles) west of Madrid.
- The mayor of Le Barp, south-west of Bordeaux, Blandine Sarrazin, warned that the situation was "getting harder", after two fires had broken out the day before, and said everyone had to be "hyper-vigilant".
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Thousands in Spain return home but new heatwave raises wildfire fears - Published Spanish authorities have allowed thousands of people evacuated because of wildfires to return to their homes after restrictions were lifted in the areas of Toledo, Madrid, Ávila, and Castellón. In the Madrid region alone, 24,000 people have been told they can return and lockdowns on another 20,000 have been lifted. Spain and France are both braced for the start of the fourth heatwave so far this summer and some fires have continued to burn, including one at Burgohondo 150km (93 miles) west of Madrid. The mayor of Le Barp, south-west of Bordeaux, Blandine Sarrazin, warned that the situation was "getting harder", after two fires had broken out the day before, and said everyone had to be "hyper-vigilant". Many of the 2,000 people forced to flee the fires in the nearby Tiétar Valley were looked after by volunteers in the town of Talavera de la Reina, some distance south of the fire. Fourteen people died in the Almería fires, including UK and Belgian nationals as well as US, French and Spanish citizens.