This Sunday, the Kings visited the La Chopera sports center, in the Madrid municipality of Villamanta, where residents evacuated from Villa del Prado, Aldea del Fresno and other towns in the southwest of the Community of Madrid affected by the forest fire remain housed. “Coordination is exemplary. Together we can face any risk,” he said. The head of the First Emergency Intervention Battalion of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), Lieutenant Colonel Alfonso Arribas, has assured that all fronts of the fire that affects the Community of Madrid and Ávila are contained, although several active heads remain. The president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has assured that the fire “came due to recklessness.” More than 121,000 people have been evacuated and confined so far due to the forest fires that have affected more than 77,000 hectares in Madrid, Ávila and Toledo, and due to the fires that affect Toledo and the Vall d’Uixò, in Castellón. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the Council of Ministers will approve next Tuesday a royal decree law to declare the areas affected by the fires as seriously affected by a civil protection emergency.
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