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In photos: Wildfires scorch Spanish land amid soaring temperatures of nearly 40 degrees
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE in Spain have been evacuated to escape wildfires burning across large areas of land.
A volunteer firefighter has died in the city of Léon in the northwest of the country, while another man died after suffering serious burns in the suburb of Tres Cantos north of Madrid.
The country has been experiencing an intense heatwave since last week, enabling dozens of wildfires that have been further fuelled by strong winds.
The Spanish meteorological agency AEMET has issued high temperature warnings for dozens of towns and cities, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 39 degrees Celsius today.
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Extreme weather events and impacts like wildfires are expected to become more frequent and more intense as climate change destabilises Earth's climate and creates conditions that are conducive to wildfires and other events.
Photographs captured over the last few days give an insight into the scale of the wildfires, the effects, and the ongoing firefighting efforts.
Firefighters working to extinguish the remains of a forest fire that reached the Tres Cantos neighborhood north of Madrid.
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Marcos del Mazo / Alamy Live News / Alamy Live News
Emergency services work to extinguish a fire in Seixalbo, Ourense, where a Level Two emergency was declared at the provincial level in Ourense over fires that burned around 4,330 hectares
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Rosa Veiga / AP/Alamy / AP/Alamy
Smoke and ashes seen in the wake of the Tres Cantos fires
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People waiting at the busy Chamartin Clara Campoamor train station in Madrid. Train traffic was temporarily cut off between Santiago and Ourense due to a fire in the vicinity of the track in the city of As Burgas, and on the Galicia-Madrid corridor due to the fire between Taboadela and Ourense.
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Gabriel Luengas / Europa Press / Alamy / Europa Press / Alamy
People try to get the edges of a fire under control in the area of Abejera, Zamora, Castilla y León.
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Emilio Fraile / AP/Alamy / AP/Alamy
The president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (left), meets with members of the regional executive to discuss the impacts of the fires in the region.
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Claudia Alba / Europa Press/Alamy / Europa Press/Alamy
Farmland burned by the fire in Calera y Chozas, Toledo.
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Juanma Jimenez / Europa Press/Alamy / Europa Press/Alamy
A cow pictured in a scorched field after the fire near Tres Cantos north of Madrid.
Marcos del Mazo / Alamy Live News
Marcos del Mazo / Alamy Live News / Alamy Live News
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