Start of a highly complex week in Catalonia with a heat wave that shoots up temperatures and turns the dense and dry forest mass into a tinderbox. The result: a succession of forest fires that have put in check the response capacity of the Generalitat Firefighters. The Generalitat has asked to confine seven urbanizations and scattered nuclei due to the evolution of the Sentmenat forest fire (Barcelona), which is advancing uncontrollably, launching secondary outbreaks and which has already affected some sixty hectares and has forced the confinement of 7,000 people. Firefighters of the Generalitat have activated a unified command center at their Bellaterra headquarters to deal with the simultaneity of emergencies because this Monday afternoon there was also a fire in Artesa de Segre (Noguera) and another between the municipalities of Carme and Pobla de Claramunt (Anoia). The latter has also forced another 33,000 residents to be confined in Igualada, La Pobla de Claramunt, Vilanova del Camí, Santa Margarida de Montbui, Castellolí and Capellades.
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