\n Sanz said some victims attempted to escape the blaze via a dry river bed, which turned out to be a deadly \u201ctrap.\u201d Four people died in a vehicle, while seven others were killed while trying to get away from the fire on foot, he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cEverything suggests that the victims were mostly, if not entirely, foreign nationals, though naturally this cannot be confirmed until their identities are officially established,\u201d Sanz said.\n <\/p>\n
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\n The mayor of Los Gallardos, Francisco Reyes, said the situation was \u201cterrifying because there is a lot of wind and the fire has spread very quickly.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have had to evacuate residents from Almoc\u00e1izar and residents from Terminar de Vedas, and now we are heading towards the campsite because, as you can see, the wind is coming from the west and this is going to reach the campsite, where we also have 400 or 500 people,\u201d he told Reuters news agency on Thursday.\n <\/p>\n
\n Some relatives of missing people took to social media to share their concerns as authorities search for those unaccounted for, and seek to identify deceased victims.\n <\/p>\n
\n A woman based in the United States posted on X that her brother was missing after trying to escape the fire through a valley with a group of 10 people. Meanwhile, another woman said on Facebook she had been unable to make contact with her parents after they said they were evacuating on Thursday.\n <\/p>\n
\n Wildfires are not unusual in Europe, but the climate crisis is driving hotter, drier weather, which is setting the stage for fiercer fire seasons.\n <\/p>\n
\n Speaking about Spain\u2019s latest blaze, Fernando Ojeda, a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of C\u00e1diz, said more than 3,000 hectares had been burnt so far.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat\u2019s a massive amount. There have been bigger fires, but this covers a huge area. It\u2019s not normal for fires of this scale to occur in Mediterranean landscapes,\u201d Ojeda told Science Media Centre.\n <\/p>\n
\n Resident Jose Antonio Flores said the fire is a \u201cdisaster\u201d for the environment and local people. \u201cThis is awful. A disaster, not just for the woodland, but for the people who have already died and everything that has happened. The house right there up above has burned completely,\u201d he told Reuters.\n <\/p>\n
\n The current death toll makes the blaze Spain\u2019s deadliest wildfire since 2005, when \u200b11 firefighters were killed in the central province of Guadalajara after a fire was sparked by a barbecue, Reuters reported.\n <\/p>\n
\n Last month, Spain set national records with temperatures on some days reaching 12.8 degrees Fahrenheit (7.1 Celsius) above average, according to the national weather service AEMET.\n <\/p>\n
\n France and the UK also set record temperatures last month amid the unprecedented heat, with many French towns and cities facing temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 Celsius).\n <\/p>\n
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\n Spain\u2019s meteorological office issued more high temperature warnings in recent days for parts of the Andalusia region. Video released by authorities shows firefighters battling large flames engulfing vegetation in the area.\n <\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, emergency services have been tackling blazes in neighboring France too, with thousands of hectares of land burned near the border with Spain, according to local authorities.\n <\/p>\n
\n In Portugal, recent wildfires have caused plumes of smoke so large they could be seen from space, according to the European Union.\n <\/p>\n
\n Europe is the world\u2019s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing more than twice as fast as the global average, according to the EU\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n <\/p>\n
\n Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez expressed his sadness over the recent deaths in the country\u2019s south. \u201cI want to convey my condolences to the families of those who died,\u201d he said on X.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 12 people have been killed in one of southern Spain\u2019s worst-ever wildfires, local officials said Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-534885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}