Spain battles the biggest fires of the century

Many international locations in Europe went right into a state of alert towards forest fires.

Spain is amongst the international locations most affected by the fires.

Since the starting of the yr, 1000’s of hectares of forest areas have turned to ash in the nation the place the struggle towards the biggest forest fires of the twenty first century is fought.

Worst in 22 years

In response to the knowledge of the European Forest Hearth Data System (EFFIS), Spain is experiencing the worst yr in forest fires in the final 22 years.

EFFIS knowledgeable that greater than 220 thousand hectares of forest space was burned in Spain.

Fires proceed in 5 locations

It was seen that the space burned in solely 7 months of this yr was above the burned areas in 2012, which is one of the years with the highest quantity of fires.

At the moment, whereas forest fires proceed in 5 locations in Spain, it was said that the fireplace that destroyed greater than a thousand hectares of land in Santa Cruz del Valle in the metropolis of Avila in the center of the nation couldn’t be managed but.

95% of the fires have been attributable to human negligence.

In the forest space of ​​Zamora, Spain, in July, 3 p.c of the metropolis’s floor space was devastated by the fires.

In response to the information of AA, the Ministry of Inside introduced that 95 p.c of the fires have been attributable to human negligence.

A useful resource of 860 million euros was transferred

The Spanish press wrote that the struggle towards the biggest forest fires of the twenty first century is being fought, and 17 autonomous administrations and central governments have transferred 860 million euros this yr to stop and extinguish the fires.