{"id":550099,"date":"2026-07-15T00:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:49:09","slug":"twelve-foreign-nationals-among-spain-wildfire-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550099\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve foreign nationals among Spain wildfire victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve of the 13 victims of a deadly wildfire that swept through Andalusia in southern Spain were foreign nationals, the authorities said after completing post-mortem examinations.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, officials said seven were from the United Kingdom, three from Belgium, and one each from France and the United States. The last victim was a Spanish citizen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 13 people who died are eight women and five men, all adults,&#8221; the public body responsible for identifying the victims added.<\/p>\n<p>Fire broke out last Thursday in the picturesque southeastern province of Almeria, which is home to many foreign residents near the Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Workers stand on the burnt landscape of a wildfire in southern spain \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024b2dd-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nWorkers stand on a burnt landscape following the deadly Los Gallardos wildfire<\/p>\n<p>Flames fanned by high winds ripped through forests and scrubland made tinderbox dry by extreme high temperatures, turning picturesque rural settlements into ghost towns.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, one of Spain&#8217;s deadliest in recent years and caused by an electrical cable falling on a road, devastated some 7,000 hectares of land.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has since been brought under control and residents have been able to return to their homes since Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has in recent years experienced increasingly long and frequent heatwaves, with temperatures exceeding 40C, creating perfect conditions for wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, more than 393,000 hectares were destroyed by fire, according to the European Forest Fire Information System &#8211; the most in Spain&#8217;s recent history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve of the 13 victims of a deadly wildfire that swept through Andalusia in southern Spain were foreign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-550099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}