{"id":823695,"date":"2026-07-24T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823695\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:14:09","slug":"europe-wildfires-latest-more-than-65000-evacuated-across-france-and-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823695\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe wildfires latest: More than 65,000 evacuated across France and Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands more ordered to evacuate in Spain as wildfires burn across Europepublished at 17:13 BST<\/p>\n<p>17:13 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Huge plume of smoke due to fire on the horizon in a woody part of Spain\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ac328f46-077b-44e5-9a58-afc4d6a3d1d4.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A thick column of smoke in El Tiemblo, Avila, in Spain as thousands are forced to evacuate<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate across Europe as multiple wildfires continue to burn, spurred on by the back-to-back heatwaves that have taken place on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Spain, more towns near the capital of Madrid have been ordered to evacuate, as tens of thousands have already begun or completed the process as wildfires continue to burn &#8211; they were out of control on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two wildfires near the capital merged earlier today, while authorities believe they could form an even bigger blaze with a fire in the neighbouring Avila province. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spanish Ministry of the Interior says in a post on X that Fresnedillas de la Oliva and Robledo de Chavela are the newest towns to be evacuated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, tourists and residents have been evacuated from the entirety of the Cap Ferret peninsula in the south-west of France, with hundreds escaping by boat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fires there, which began on Tuesday, have burned for days, with officials saying 12,500 hectares (more than 30,000 acres) had been consumed by flames. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, in Italy thousands of emergency responders have been working to contain fires, and authorities have paid tribute to a firefighter who died tackling a wildfire in Sicily. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is a developing story and we will bring you the latest updates and analysis throughout. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands more ordered to evacuate in Spain as wildfires burn across Europepublished at 17:13 BST 17:13 BST Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-823695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}