Firefighters are struggling to contain large wildfires tearing through forests in Valencia. Powerful winds have made the fires difficult to put out and it has swept through 6,500 hectares.

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More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from nearby villages because of the blaze. Spain has been simultaneously struggling with another blaze in the Aragon region, which has forced authorities to evacuate 1,500 people. According to data from the European Forest Fire Information System, 659,541 hectares of land burned across the continent between January and mid-August, 260,000 of which has been in Spain alone

Wildfires in Europe burn area equivalent to one-fifth of Belgium ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/wildfires-europe-burn-area-equivalent-one-fifth-belgium

‘It’s much easier to stop someone lighting a match than to put out a 1,000-acre fire’ ► https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/peru-fire-prevention-brigade-sacred-valley-wildfires-aoe

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