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More than 63,000 People in Central Spain Have Evacuated From Path of Fires

Wildfires have forced at least 63,152 people to evacuate their homes in the central Spanish regions of Madrid, Toledo and Avila, Spain’s Interior Ministry said Monday. The ministry has also temporarily suspended harvesting work with agricultural machinery in those three regions. The fire in the province of Avila has burned more than 50,000 hectares (190 square miles), making it the largest fire in Spain’s history, the Minister for the Ecological…

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The smell of burning wood is strong and constant: the forested areas located in the south of the municipality of Cebreros, in central Spain…

·Chevy Chase, United States
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While the fire in the regions of Madrid, Toledo and Avila is still active and has already ravaged nearly 77,000 hectares, seven times the surface of Paris, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Tuesday 28 July "seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in the fight" against the fires. Nearly 90,000 people have been evacuated or placed in confinement, completely emptying villages, as in Aldea del Fresno: its inhabitants are only a…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The fires that affect the Sierra Oeste of Madrid and the province of Ávila are already visible from space.The Sentinal satellites of the European program Copernicus have captured the evolution of the fires and how they have affected the territory of both provinces.With images taken before the flames began and on July 24 and 26 it is observed how the flames and the smoke have been covering more and more part of the land.Before Later Images captur…

·Madrid, Spain
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The fire in Ávila is already the worst in the entire history of the State, with more than 50,000 hectares burned

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Although the fire has already destroyed 25,000 hectares in the Madrid region, that of Ávila is the most devastating of all recorded historically, ...

·Madrid, Spain
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El Independiente broke the news on Sunday, July 26, 2026.
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