At least 1,400 civilians in Spain have been forced to evacuate their homes due to a large wildfire raging in the country’s west. A number of campsites also had to be cleared due to the blaze.Armenpress reports, referring to “EL Pais”, that residents have been taken to nearby Cáceres and Moraleja, where, in the latter municipality, they are being housed in conference centers, according to the Red Cross in Extremadura.
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The cause of the fire was still undetermined but “everything seems to indicate” arson, he added.
Six roads in the Sierra de Gata mountain range were closed because of the fire.
“When a fireplace is concentrated in a really particular space it’s as a result of the hand of man should have performed some type of a task, as a result of it isn’t hotter and drier within the Sierra de Gata than in the remaining of Extremadura”, he stated.
Four other wildfires that burning in the southeastern region of Murcia since Thursday were now either under control or stabilised, firefighters said. The blaze near Barcelona, which officials say is the Catalonia region’s biggest forest fire this year, had charred some 1,000 hectares (2,400 acres) by Monday.
A new all-time temperature high in Germany was set on Friday in the town of Kitzingen in northern Bavaria, where the mercury reached 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit).
High temperatures have led to warnings in several other countries.
Since July 19 wildfires have ravaged almost 39,000 hectares of land in Spain, according to the provisional figures from the agriculture ministry.
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August 2003 had beforehand been the most well liked month on document with a mean temperature of 26.2 levels Celsius.
