The Generalitat Firefighters have managed to stabilize the fire in Sant Quirze Safaja, in Barcelona, which has led to the preventive confinement of several houses and a rural hostel and the evacuation of a campsite and a campsite. The Government of Aragon has ordered the evacuation of the residents of Orés (72 inhabitants), Asín (88 inhabitants) and Luesia (332), in Zaragoza, through an Es-Alert message, due to a forest fire that has already burned at least 140 hectares and that had forced the intervention of the Military Emergency Unit (UME). The forest area burned in Spain now amounts to 62,215 hectares, 2.5 times more than in the same period of 2025, according to the European Forest Fire Information System, a figure that doubles the historical average and is far from the worst years, which exceeded 143,000 hectares. In the last week, 4,882 hectares have been burned, not yet fully counting the Los Gallardos fire (Almería), which has charred some 7,000 hectares. So far this year, 320 fires have been recorded, almost triple the number in 2025, and the Ministry puts the number of large fires recorded at 15, double the average for the last decade.
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