Afp – Fire in Zamora, in the region of Castile and León
Spain
– In Andalusia it has even passed the 50-degree mark, but 40 degrees are also the order of the day in the otherwise more temperate areas of Spain such as Castile and Catalonia. The fire emergency call is now daily. In the northwest, in Toledo and in the Tarragona area, tens of thousands of people had to be evacuated. The fire that has caused the most concern is that in the Sierra de la Culebra, an area of the province of Zamora (Castile and León): the flames have burned more than 25,000 hectares of land and hundreds of people have had to be evacuated, who live in different places. “Complicated” hours also in the Navarre region, where struggles are being made to contain several fires reported since Saturday 18 June: the situation is particularly difficult regarding five fires currently considered “out of control”. official update. The authorities are calling for people to “keep calm” and avoid “unnecessary travel”.
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France
– The red alert has been lifted, but 50 departments, mainly in the western part of the country, remain in orange. Here, too, temperatures well above 40 degrees. Another 32 departments are on alert. However, the latter are usually due to thunderstorms, rain, flooding or strong winds. “An early and intense heatwave is underway over much of the eastern part of the country,” writes Météo-France in the daily bulletin, which also forecast “a sharp deterioration in weather for the evening of Sunday 19 New Aquitaine to ‘Ile-de-France ‘.
Afp – Fire in Treuenbrietzen, southwest of Berlin
Germany and Switzerland
– The columns have exceeded 35 degrees even in normally cooler countries like Germany and Switzerland. The former in particular has seen numerous fires in recent days after a period of intense heat and little rain. The German weather agency reported that the mercury column exceeded 38 degrees at a survey station in the east of the country on Sunday. Due to a fire that destroyed 100 hectares of forest in the Brandenburg region, around 700 people were evacuated to the Berlin area. The emergency will last at least until Tuesday 21st when a disruption should bring conditions back to normal for at least a few days.