Overview
- The Tamarite de Litera blaze, which intensified on Thursday and continued into Friday, has spread over an estimated several thousand hectares and remains difficult to control, prompting evacuation orders for multiple villages and temporary sheltering of residents.
- Authorities have raised emergency levels and deployed a large, coordinated response that includes the Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME), regional brigades helitransportadas, BRIF teams and multiple water-dropping aircraft to defend towns and slow the fire's advance.
- Several other recent fires have been contained or extinguished: the Sant Quirze Safaja fire was stabilised after burning about 10–16 hectares, the Las Jaras blaze in Córdoba was brought under control after overnight work, and the A Capela fire in Fragas do Eume was declared extinguished after roughly 53 hectares burned.
- In Argentina, firefighting teams continue to battle a long-running native-forest fire in Cafayate that has affected more than 200 hectares while a prosecutor-led judicial probe seeks to determine the cause and responsibility for the damage.
- Officials warn that the current heatwave and very dry fuels raise the risk of new ignitions this high-risk season, leading regional committees to mobilize thousands of personnel and urge the public to keep land clear of combustible material and to report suspicious starts.