The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) calculate that 380,000 hectares have burned in Spain so far this year, while the fight against the flames continues.

After weeks of heat and devastating forest fires in Spain, the situation is easing. Cooler temperatures, rain, and international support are bringing hope - at the same time, the government is announcing a national climate pact. D.C. residents drive law ...

So far, sparsely populated areas have been hardest hit, but thousands of residents have already been evacuated.

Soldiers continue to help firefighters across Spain, including in and around the Galicia and Extremadura regions, following several major wildfires - and more are feared

Fires in Galicia have ravaged small, sparsely populated towns, forcing locals in many cases to step in before firefighters arrive. Firefighting units from Germany arrived in northern Spain on Tuesday to help fight the blazes, Spain's Interior Ministry ...

Cooler air and rising humidity may give Spain’s scorched regions a reprieve, but the scale of devastation underscores a hotter political and climatic reality.

VILLANUEVA DE LA SIERRA, Spain, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Spain battled 14 major fires driven by high winds and aggravated by heat on Friday as authorities warned of "unfavourable conditions" to tackle flames that have already killed seven people and burned an area the size of London.

In neighbouring Portugal, where fires are also blazing, another firefighter was killed on Sunday in a "tragic" traffic accident, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said. Fires have also broken out in Greece, France, Turkey and the Balkans as a heatwave has scorched swathes of southern Europe.

The fire has already destroyed at least 25 homes, and left an additional more than 2,500 without electricity while roads are closed across Spain and France.

Spain is seeing its most devastating forest fires in over 20 years, with 3,440 square kilometres of land destroyed by more than 220 fires so far this year, according to new EU estimates. The previous record registered by the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) was 3,

Every summer, forest fires sweep across Spain, dominating headlines and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. This year's have been especially harsh, with devastating fires thus far in Tarifa,