MADRID: Firefighters in Spain and Portugal were battling to keep wildfires spanning thousands of hectares contained on Monday (Aug 7) as a scorching heatwave hit the Iberian peninsula, worsening co
and Portugal were battling to keep wildfires spanning thousands of hectares contained on Monday as a scorching heatwave hit the Iberian peninsula, worsening conditions.
The regions of Andalusia in the south, the central Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura in the west were placed on an orange alert with temperatures expected to reach 43 degrees Celsius on Monday, according to Spain's weather agency Aemet. A fire that broke around 10km from the Spanish coastal city of Cadiz, a popular destination for tourists on the Atlantic Ocean, on Sunday had"stabilised" by midnight, the firefighting service Infoca said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Catalan fire officials said on Monday on Twitter, which is being rebranded as X, that the blaze was now under control, though around 30 firefighting units were still on site where nearly 600ha burned, forest officials said.
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