Overview
- The Comité Estatal de Coordinación y Dirección decided on Thursday, May 21, 2026, to advance the national wildfire campaign to June 1 so state resources are fully active before the high‑risk period.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez outlined what he called the “largest deployment of the State,” listing 15 amphibious planes, an A400M firefighting kit, four Chinook and two Cougar helicopters, high‑capacity drones, thermal cameras and off‑road vehicles.
- The Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica committed BRIF brigades, the UMAP mobile analysis unit, EPRIF prevention teams, BLP crews and 56 aerial assets (31 helicopters and 25 planes and hydroplanes) to the national device.
- The Unidad Militar de Emergencias will provide multiple intervention battalions, transmission and support units plus vehicles and ambulances to back firefighting and civilian protection operations.
- The government announced full implementation of a new BRIF labor agreement and urged a national pact to strengthen coordination and prevention, a move that could shift more investment to off‑season forest care and reduce intergovernmental friction.