Three people died and six people have been seriously injured in the fires that have been hitting Spain since Sunday, August 10. More than 8,000 people have been evacuated from around thirty municipalities in the Castille-et-Léon region alone, where the natural jewel of Las Medulas, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage, with its large red-red walls, its forests of oaks, chestnut trees and wild cherry trees that have pushed on the flanks of ancient gold mines exploited during antiquity, was reduced to asth.
At Tarifa, on the Andalusian coast, more than 3,500 people, often vacationers, had been forced to leave their hotels, campsites and tourist housing, Monday and Tuesday, before the fire that burned 300 hectares was checked on Wednesday. In Estremadure (in the center-west of the country), alerts were sent to the mobile phones of the inhabitants of a village, asking them to remain confined, windows and closed doors, before a convoy was organized on the night of Wednesday to Thursday to put 19 inhabitants who had refused to be evacuated, threatened by thousands of hectares as flames. Near Toledo, in the center of the country, 4,000 people were confined to their homes on Tuesday because of the columns of black smoke from a fire, finally extinguished this Thursday. Fourteen roads and a highway were cut to traffic this Thursday morning as a precaution.
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