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Spain on heat alert and 'very high to extreme' fire risk

Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel All of Spain was on a heatwave alert on Friday, while the weather agency warned that much of the country was at "very high to extreme risk" from two weeks of high temperatures have left Spain sweltering, and on Friday spread to Cantabria, which has so far been spared from the searing in the northwestern region were forecast to pass 40C, the national meteorological agency, Aemet, risk of fires on Friday and over the weekend into Monday is "very high or extreme in most of the country", it has endured a devastating season of fires, with 157,501 hectares (389,193 acres) reduced to ashes since the start of the year, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).Yet that figure is still well short of 2022, when more than 306,000 hectares went up in people have died during the fires, including two young volunteers in their thirties who lost their lives trying to put out a fire in the Castile and Leon Thursday morning, France sent two water-bombers to help try to douse the flames in the northwestern region, where a dozen fires were still railway line between Madrid and the northwestern region of Galicia remained closed as well as some 10 main roads in the Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned that Friday would again be "very difficult, with an extreme risk of new fires"."The government remains mobilised with all resources to contain the fires. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to those who are on the front line fighting to protect us," he wrote on the social media platform PSOE and the conservative PP have clashed in recent days over the crisis, with regional administrations normally tasked with putting out forest central government only intervenes in major incidents and can call on an emergency military unit, which has been in high demand as reinforcements across the PP accuses the government of having cut the number of air assets but the PSOE denied doing so and has criticised opposition leaders, accusing some of being on holiday while their regions burn.