Firefighters battle one of Spain’s biggest-ever wildfires during heat wave across the Mediterranean
A firefighting plane pictured releasing water over the La Mierla fire in Guadalajara, Spain, on Wednesday. Firefighters battling the La Mierla fire on Tuesday. Ana Beltran/Reuters “Year after year we clearly see how climate change kills and destroys wealth in our communities,” Sánchez said in the village of Tamajón, located less than two hours by car northeast of Madrid.
- ▪A firefighting plane pictured releasing water over the La Mierla fire in Guadalajara, Spain, on Wednesday.
- ▪Firefighters battling the La Mierla fire on Tuesday.
- ▪Ana Beltran/Reuters “Year after year we clearly see how climate change kills and destroys wealth in our communities,” Sánchez said in the village of Tamajón, located less than two hours by car northeast of Madrid.
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A firefighting plane pictured releasing water over the La Mierla fire in Guadalajara, Spain, on Wednesday. Ana Beltran/Reuters Facebook X LinkedIn Firefighters in central Spain battled a wildfire on Wednesday that has burned more than 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) in one of the country’s largest blazes on record. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1652956513490-0'); }); The fire in rural Guadalajara comes less than two weeks after a deadly blaze devastated a small expat community in southern Spain. That small but extremely virulent fire killed 13 people, including several foreigners, in one of the southern European country’s deadliest wildfires.
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