Two other dead while Spanish troops are fighting

Spain sent 500 more soldiers to combat unleashed forest fires, bringing the total deployed to 1,900, while the number of flames dead has increased to four.

On Sunday, a firefighter died after an accident during the efforts to fight fire when his truck fell on a steep hill, said the regional government of Castile and León.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed “sadness” and “desolation” on X during the last death.

In neighboring Portugal, where fires are also dazzling, another firefighter was killed Sunday in a “tragic traffic accident,” said President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

The fires also broke out in Greece, France, Turkey and the Balkans while a heat wave has burned southern European areas.

Several large fires still burn in the northwest and western Spain, where 27,000 residents are currently evacuated from their homes.

Castille and León are the most affected area, with the local radio station Radio 5 reporting on Monday that the air is “unshakable” due to smoke.

A fire in the western province of Cáceres is also still out of control and has burned 11,000 hectares (27,181 acres).

Twelve fires burn in the northwest region of Galicia, most of them in the province of Ohisen, the largest having burned 17,500 hectares.

The fires left at least five people injured in Castile and León on Sunday, including four in critical condition.

Last week, two volunteers died while fighting fires in Leon. Another man died at Tres Cantos, near Madrid, after a fire.

Only this year, this year, around 343,000 hectares burned in Spain, according to the information system on the European Forest Fire (Effis) – almost double the amount of the previous year.

During the weekend, the Spanish Civil Guard said it had proposed “sanctions” in four people for making unauthorized burns in a coruña in the Galicia region.

Encouraging a forest fire is a criminal offense in Spain, even if it is accidental.

Neighboring Portugal also had to face forest fires since the end of July, the north and the center of the country have struck the hardest.

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa transmitted his “deeper sympathies” to the bereaved family of the firefighter killed in an accident on Sunday. Two other firefighters were also injured.

In 2025, the Effis reported that the Forest Fires in Portugal had burned around 216,000 hectares of land.

Spain and Portugal have activated the European civil protection mechanism, under which countries can request emergency assistance.

Firefighters from other countries have been sent to fight fires in Spain, and the two countries will receive two fire -fighting planes.

Forest fires are a current event in southern Europe in summer, but their severity can often be exacerbated by heat waves.

Meteorologists say that such extremes are becoming more and more frequent and intense due to climate change induced by humans.

Climate change makes the weather more severe, according to research from the State of Spanish Meteorological Agency.