Overview
- The fire ignited near La Bisbal d'Empordà on Friday and spread quickly toward the Costa Brava, prompting preventive confinement orders for roughly 10–12 municipalities.
- More than 200 firefighters and multiple aerial units are fighting the blaze, and Catalan leader Salvador Illa has requested assistance from Spain’s Military Emergencies Unit.
- Authorities used the Es-Alert system to warn tens of thousands of people, about 12,000 were told to shelter indoors, and roughly 150 tourists were evacuated from a holiday camp.
- Rural Agents say roadworks are the suspected ignition source and that finding is being treated as an active line of investigation.
- Estimates of area burned vary from several hundred hectares to over 2,000 hectares, a scale that renews concern after Spain’s severe 2025 wildfire season and threatens a busy tourist weekend on the Costa Brava.