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Fire at Spanish Solar Plant Burns 90 Hectares - Pv Magazine Global

A fire at a photovoltaic plant located in the municipality of Puertollano, central Spain, affected around 90 hectares and forced the deployment of a large firefighting operation. According to the mayor of Puertollano, Miguel Ángel Ruiz, the fire originated in one of the large photovoltaic installations located next to the N-420 highway. The first warning was issued by the company operating the plant itself. The fire broke out around 13:00 last W…

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The forest fires razed 173,651 hectares in Spain in 2026. Official figures confirm a devastating advance of fire in Spain, almost six times the calcined surface over the previous year by these dates. Satellite measurements certify a disorbited increase due to the virulence of summer fires. Thirty-five macrofires are responsible for having burned most of the affected forest mass in the national territory. The largest outbreaks are concentrated in…

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The country faces its worst wave of the decade with record calcined surface figures that force the catastrophic area to be declared

·Madrid, Spain
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The forest fires have burned a total of 173,651.46 hectares in Spain between 1 January and 28 July 2026, compared with 29,817 hectares burned in the same period of 2025, six times more than a year ago.

The figure far exceeds the 42,913 evacuated by fire in 2025 and 6,827 in 2024. Read more

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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So far this year, there are 173,651.46 hectares burned in the European country, almost six times more than in the same period of 2025. The post Fires in Spain evolve favorably in the face of the threat of a new heat wave appeared first on THE NATIONAL.

In a solar park in the central Spanish municipality of Puertollano, a fire broke out last Wednesday. The fire covered an area of about 90 hectares. In the fight, firemen from Castile-La Mancha, Andalucia and Extremadura were used. At the time of the incident, around 1:00 p.m., three people worked on the plant. They tried to contain the first small fire. One of them, a 51-year-old man, suffered burns and was first supplied by an ambulance. Later,…

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pv magazine International broke the news on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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