Forest fires in northern Spain 'under control'

2023-04-08T06:16+0200thesaxon (en)

A mountain blackened by fires near the village of Leiriella, Asturias, April 1. The numerous forest fires of criminal origin that have ravaged Asturias and Cantabria in northern Spain in recent days were brought under control on Saturday thanks to more favorable weather conditions, authorities said. .

Spain, France, Turkey and Greece travel advice for Brits over the Easter holidays

2023-04-04T11:44+0200dailystar (en)

In fact the likes of Spain , Greece, Turkey and France are all firm favourites, thanks to the stunning weather from June through to August, and the fact there's plenty to do for tourists from museums to great food! However, while the popular hotspots are familiar to many a holiday-lover it’s always best to check the before booking or flying.

Wildfires force evacuations across Valencia region

2023-04-04T01:52+0200thelocal-es (en)

Sunday saw a number of forest fires across the Valencia region, with some serious enough to warrant the evacuation of local residents and even, in some cases, the rescue of hikers from nearby hills. Up to six fires were reported across the region on Sunday, with an orange alert declared for high....

The role of rural communities, key to wildfire prevention

2023-04-03T16:43+0200ctfc (en)

So demonstrate the results of two scientific articles focused on nature-based solutions for fire prevention, published within the framework of the FriESmart project There is a consensus on the causes and possible nature-based solutions for the prevention of forest fires Reversing rural abandonment....

BIOPLAT celebra el final de la incertidumbre en el sector

2023-04-03T14:38+0200ecoticias (es)

El acuerdo alcanzado permite el aprovechamiento de la biomasa forestal en España, favoreciendo la gestión sostenible y limpieza de los montes, y contribuyendo a la lucha contra los incendios forestales. El Gobierno de España se ha alineado con el resto de países mediterráneos en la necesidad de....

Spagna, già iniziata la drammatica stagione dei roghi

2023-04-03T12:23+0200geagency (it)

Secondo le autorità, nel fine settimana più di cento incendi appiccati illegalmente hanno devastato il nord della Spagna, mentre i roghi che hanno imperversato per oltre una settimana nell’est del Paese sono sotto controllo. In totale, 119 incendi sono stati segnalati venerdì pomeriggio nella....

UPDATE: Rainfall helps control devastating wildfires in Asturias after over 800 emergency workers try to stop the flames

2023-04-02T11:36+0200euroweeklynews (en)

UPDATE April 2 (11.25 am) – Authorities in Spain said UME troops and other supporting teams will no longer be required during operations to stop wildfires in Asturias Recent rainfall and a change in the direction of the wind has helped emergency workers on the ground in Asturias to control multiple wildfires across the region.

Spagna, emergenza incendi: distrutti 28mila ettari in 3 mesi

2023-04-01T19:46+0200iconaclima (it)

Gli incendi hanno distrutto 28.400 ettari in tutta la Spagna in tre mesi, più che in anni interi. Significa che in soli 90 giorni il Paese ha perso più superficie che in anni come 2008, 2010, 2014 e 2018, secondo i dati satellitari del Sistema europeo di informazione sugli incendi boschivi (EFFIS) che utilizza le immagini satellitari di Copernicus.

Spain: The wave of forest fires is now “under control”

2023-04-01T16:13+0200archyde (en)

THE multiple wildfires of criminal origin having ravaged Asturias and Cantabria in northern Spain in recent days, were stabilized on Saturday thanks to more favorable weather conditions, the authorities announced. In the Asturias region, 71 fires were still underway on Saturday noon, compared to more than 90 the day before.

Over 100 landscaped fires in northern SpainÖver 100 anlagda bränder rasade i norra Spanien under fredagen, enligt myndigheterna.

2023-04-01T11:39+0200ground-news (en)

Over 100 landscaped fires in northern Spain . Over 100 landscaped fires raged in northern Spain during Friday, according to authorities. 91 of them in the province of Asturias on the Bay of Biscya, the rest in the neighbouring Cantabria region. At most, it was about 160 fires in the two regions known for their forests.

More than 100 wildfires ravaged Spain in one day, linked to man-made arson and unusually high temperatures

2023-04-01T07:59+0200tellerreport (en)

2023-04-01T05:58:59.758Z. On March 3, 30 spring wildfires broke out in the autonomous community of Asturias in northern Spain , and authorities pointed to the factors behind the arson, but record spring heat and lack of rainfall also contributed to the spread of the fires.

Video Meteo di Cronaca Diretta: la Spagna va a fuoco, un incendio indomabile brucia 6000 ettari di bosco, leggi articolo completo

2023-04-01T05:39+0200ilmeteo (it)

Gli incendi boschivi continuano a imperversare nella zona di confine delle province spagnole orientali di Castellón e Teruel negli ultimi giorni di Marzo 2023. Le fiamme hanno devastato soprattutto le due province delle Comunità Autonome spagnole di Valencia e Aragona con almeno 6000 ettari di vegetazione in fumo.

News24.com | Northern Spain ravaged by more than 100 fires

2023-03-31T20:11+0200news24 (en)

More than one hundred illegally started fires ravaged northern Spain on Friday. At the worst point, there were 160 fires in the two mountainous regions known for their forests, which are vulnerable to forest fires, but authorities said were started by criminals. Hundreds of people were evacuated and a number of roads were closed.

“Asturias didn’t burn. They set fires”: Nearly 100 active fires by “real terrorists”

2023-03-31T19:14+0200oe-mag (en)

Spain More than 600 soldiers are fighting to put out the fire. Recorded temperatures are available. Chancellor of Asturias Recorded By noon Friday, 91 wildfires had reached the gates of Oviedo, down from 30 at 10:30 a.m. Weather conditions – such as strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures –....

Northern Spain ravaged by more than 100 fires

2023-03-31T18:51+0200thepeninsulaqatar (en)

Madrid: More than one hundred illegally started fires ravaged northern Spain on Friday, according to authorities while blazes that raged for over a week in the country's east were under control. In total, 119 fires continued to rage on Friday afternoon in the region of Asturias and in neighbouring....

Northern Spain Ravaged By More Than 100 Fires

2023-03-31T18:31+0200barrons (en)

More than one hundred illegally started fires ravaged northern Spain on Friday, according to authorities while blazes that raged for over a week in the country's east were under control. In total, 119 fires continued to rage on Friday afternoon in the region of Asturias and in neighbouring....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T16:18+0200naharnet-ar (en)

In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain . Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio and fire....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T13:02+0200thepeninsulaqatar (en)

BARCELONA, Spain : In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T12:52+0200seattletimes (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T12:40+0200timesofindia (en)

BARCELOA: In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain . Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T10:17+0200newsnow-co-uk (en)

In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain . Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio and fire....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T09:07+0200taiwannews (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in …

2023-03-30T08:59+0200wearecentralpa (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:58+0200TorontoStar (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:47+0200ABCnews (en)

. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio and fire experts by displaying an unusual ferocity for spring, when in previous years lower temperatures helped keep fires manageable.

Climate Change Helps Breed Springtime Wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:37+0200usnews (en)

The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio and fire experts by displaying an unusual ferocity for spring, when in previous years lower temperatures helped keep fires manageable. That doesn't bode well for a country that led Europe in burned land during a record-hot 2022.

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:34+0200independent-UK (en)

In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain . Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio and fire....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:33+0200metro-us (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:32+0200wsoctv (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:28+0200actionnewsjax (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in …

2023-03-30T08:28+0200wowktv (en)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:28+0200sfgate (en)

“I was expecting a fire like the ones we normally see in March, which can consume 100, 200 hectares, not the more than 4,300 hectares (11,600 acres) that this one has burned,” Rubio, 39, told The Associated Press hours before going back into the fray. “We are dealing with weather conditions....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:25+0200news4jax (en)

BARCELONA – In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain . Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:24+0200clickondetroit (en)

BARCELONA – In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain . Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised Rubio....

Climate change helps breed springtime wildfires in Spain

2023-03-30T08:24+0200sandiegouniontribune (en)

BARCELONA, Spain — In his more than a decade battling wildfires, firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain. Not this early in the year. The forest fire that that broke out last Thursday near the village of Villanueva de Viver surprised....

More than 60 forest fires ravage Asturias as Spain´s Military Emergency Unit joins over 500 others working on ground

2023-03-30T01:15+0200euroweeklynews (en)

Spain ´s Military Emergency Unit joins the operation in Asturias to extinguish more than 60 fires ravaging the autonomous community. The Military Emergency Unit (UME) of Spain has joined the effort to extinguish more than sixty simultaneous forest fires that are raging across According to official....

Danish drone technology gives firefighters eyes in the air

2023-03-29T15:34+0200ing (en)

An area larger than Belgium. Now a Danish-Spanish cooperation will enable the firefighters on the ground to better fight the growing forest fires. The project is called Firedragon. It is a collaboration between the Danish company Robotto, the Danish Technological Institute, and the Spanish drone....

Why has Spain's wildfire season begun so early?

2023-03-28T17:17+0200itv (en)

Raging fires, charred forests and bone dry landscapes are becoming commonplace during Spanish summers - but this was the scene thousands of people were met with this weekend. More than 1,500 people fled their homes as a major forest fire erupted in Spain ’s eastern Castellon province on Friday.

27/03/2023. Pedro Sánchez visits the Advanced Command Post of the Barracas fire (Castellón). The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro...

2023-03-28T16:11+0200lamoncloa (en)

Barracas, Castellón. There, the chief executive underlined the Government's commitment to the reconstruction and recovery of the territories affected by the fire once the extinguishing work has been completed. "We will make every effort and use all the resources at our disposal so that, in the....

Δασικές πυρκαγιές μαίνονται στην Ισπανία 3

2023-03-28T10:14+0200cna (en)

epa10546542 Smoke caused by a fire rises near the village of San Agustin, Teruel, Spain , 28 March 2023. Forest fires in Spain's Teruel and Castellon regions have burnt at least 4,300 hectares. EPA/Biel Alino. epa10546541 Smoke caused by a fire rises near the village of San Agustin, Teruel, Spain, 28 March 2023.

Δασικές πυρκαγιές μαίνονται στην Ισπανία 3

2023-03-28T10:11+0200cna-en (en)

epa10546542 Smoke caused by a fire rises near the village of San Agustin, Teruel, Spain , 28 March 2023. Forest fires in Spain's Teruel and Castellon regions have burnt at least 4,300 hectares. EPA/Biel Alino. epa10546541 Smoke caused by a fire rises near the village of San Agustin, Teruel, Spain, 28 March 2023.

The strong wind rekindles during the night the fire of Castellón

2023-03-28T07:59+0200tellerreport (en)

2023-03-28T05:57:36.370Z. A strong wind has rekindled this Monday night the flames of the first major forest fire of the year in Spain , complicating the work of firefighters despite the drop in fire.Extinction work Pedro Sánchez, in the fire of Castellón: "It is not possible to be neutral in the....

The wind revives the first major forest fire of the year in Spain, more than 1800 people evacuated

2023-03-28T03:55+0200archyde (en)

A strong wind reaching up to 70 km / ha revived, Monday evening, the flames of the first major forest fire of the year in Spain , complicating the work of firefighters despite the mild temperatures (19 ° C). “We have to be careful because the fire remains very active,” Gabriela Bravo, regional head....

Spain mulls options as wildfires gain in size, intensity

2023-03-28T02:52+0200thenews-pk (en)

TAIBARA, Spain : Walking through the charred remains of the forested hillsides of Sierra de la Culebra that were devastated by Spain´s worst wildfire last year, Pablo Martin Pinto is blunt. “We are moving from the era of big forest fires to mega forest fires in Spain,” says this wildfire expert from....