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France 24
08-07-2025
- Climate
- France 24
Thousands told to stay home as Spain forest fire rages
More than 450 firefighters backed by helicopters and planes were deployed across a hilly 30-kilometre (19-mile) front in the northeastern province of Tarragona, the Catalonia region's fire service said. The blaze had devoured an estimated 3,137 hectares (7,751 acres), with the protected Els Ports natural park representing about one-third of the total, according to Catalan rangers. An AFP journalist at the scene saw a helicopter swoop over burning vegetation and a house to drop water as grey smoke billowed from the green hills. The blaze had gutted an isolated hillside home, which stood surrounded by scorched trees, its roof collapsed. Firefighters said they were "cautiously optimistic" as they worked to stabilise the blaze and prevent it spreading further into the park. "The changing wind patterns in the area will determine the fire's progression," the service added in a statement. The emergency response could "begin a stabilisation phase in the final hours of the day", said the leader of Catalonia's regional authority, Salvador Illa. Catalonia's civil protection authority urged residents to shut their doors and windows and stay home, saying around 18,000 people were affected. Overnight gusts of up to 90 kilometres (56 miles) per hour had thwarted efforts to extinguish the fire, prompting reinforcements from the Spanish army's emergencies unit. Scientists say human-induced climate change is increasing the intensity, length and frequency of the extreme heat that fuels forest fires. Spain has in recent days sweltered through a heatwave that parched the land and heightened the risk of forest fires. National weather agency AEMET said last month was Spain's hottest June on record and that the frequency of extreme heat had tripled in the past 10 years. According to the European Forest Fire Information System, around 500 fires destroyed 300,000 hectares in Spain in 2022, a record for the continent. Around 21,000 hectares have burned so far this year.
Daily Mail
16-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Fairground trampoline horror as girl, two, dies after bouncing into electrified fence
A two-year-old Spanish girl has died and three other children left injured after bouncing into an electrified fence while on a local fairground trampoline. The young children are believed to have accidentally touched or brushed against a metal mesh fence that surrounded the trampoline and had an unearthed electric current running through it. Paramedics in the small village of Alquerías, near the city of Murcia in southern Spain, were called to the scene in the early hours of Sunday morning following reports of several injuries. Despite desperate attempts to resuscitate the two-year-old for up to an hour, she was tragically declared dead following the fatal electric shock. Following the devastating incident, local witnesses said that the girl, who is unnamed, had been found unconscious and bleeding from her nose. Meanwhile, an eight-year-old girl and two boys aged 11 and 12, also suffered electric shocks, but are said to be recovering. One 29-year-old woman was also treated for an anxiety attack after witnessing the incident. Spain's Civil Guard police sealed off the fairground and said they have now opened an investigation into negligence and involuntary manslaughter. The ongoing investigation will seek to determine whether the attraction was safely connected to the electrical network. Following the tragic incident, Murcia City Council declared three days of official mourning and have also suspended all planned festival events. In 2022, eight-year-old Cayetana, and Vera, aged four, both died after a bouncy castle was blown into the air at a local fairground in the Spanish Mislata, located just outside of Valencia. Emergency services were called to the fairground on the evening of January 4 after witnesses reported watching the inflatable structure become airborne, throwing several children to the ground. Vera had been playing on the inflatable at the fairground near Valencia when it was lifted several feet into the air. Cayetana, was also on the inflatable when it was lifted, before she landed on her head when it hit the ground. She died 12 hours later after she was rushed to La Fe Hospital in Valencia. It was reported at the time that another girl, aged four, was also seriously injured and had been taken to hospital. Seven other youngsters were hurt and required hospital treatment although their injuries were mostly described as non-serious.
Free Malaysia Today
08-06-2025
- Free Malaysia Today
1 dead, 19 injured in Spanish retirement home fire
Police have launched an investigation into the blaze, believed to have been caused by an oxygen tank explosion. (EPA Images pic) MADRID : A blaze erupted in a retirement home in northeastern Spain killing a 93-year-old man and injuring 19 others, officials said today. The fire broke out in a ground-floor room at around 11pm yesterday at the home in the northeastern city of Zaragoza, local emergency services wrote on social network X. The man died at the scene and at least 19 other people were taken to hospitals to be treated for smoke inhalation, they said. The facility is home to 132 people. Emergency services workers and locals worked together to evacuate residents, some of whom had to be rescued through broken windows, according to local media reports. Police have launched an investigation into the blaze, with local media saying an oxygen tank explosion could have triggered the fire.
Reuters
20-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Telefonica's Spanish network update causes partial communications outage
MADRID, May 20 (Reuters) - Spanish telecom company Telefonica ( opens new tab said works to update its network had caused a communications outage of fixed phone and internet lines in some areas of Spain on Tuesday, three weeks after the country suffered a catastrophic power blackout. The company said in a brief statement its crews were working on reestablishing the service and the 112 Emergency lines were already back on in the affected areas after suffering disruptions since the early hours of Tuesday. The communications outage comes after a massive electricity blackout in Spain and Portugal on April 28, whose causes are yet to be determined. Telefonica is the second-largest operator in Spain after Orange's MasOrange, and other large providers' services were not affected. Telefonica's mobile service also appeared to work fine. According to the Downdetector monitoring website, the disruptions being reported were mostly about fixed-line internet services in the regions of Aragon, Valencia, Andalusia, Extremadura, the Basque Country and Navarra.
The Sun
20-05-2025
- General
- The Sun
Phone network down across Spain with emergency services out of contact just weeks after national blackout caused chaos
A PHONE network is down across Spain with emergency services out of contact just weeks after a national blackout caused chaos. Problems with the national communications network Telefonica are affecting corporate landline networks and data services, with some emergency services having to set up alternative numbers. 1 The Valencian Community's 112 call center first reported the outage at 8:15am local time, with the issue now affecting the Basque Country, Andalusia, Extremadura, and Aragon. The exact cause of the devastating outage has not yet been specified, with work underway to restore normal service. .
