{"id":528798,"date":"2026-07-16T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:17:14","slug":"spanish-authorities-identify-all-13-victims-of-deadly-southern-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528798\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish authorities identify all 13 victims of deadly southern fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/07\/11\/wildfires-in-southern-spain-kill-at-least-12-with-23-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fire ravaged a remote expat community<\/a> in southern Spain, authorities late Tuesday identified all 13 fatalities using biological samples.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, French firefighters brought under control a forest fire in the historic and much-visited Fontainebleau area south of Paris as parts of the continent continued to face extremely hot temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>All but one of the deceased in the Spanish wildfire, all adults, were foreign nationals. They include seven British citizens \u2014 including a 93 year-old woman who died in the hospital \u2014 three Belgian nationals, a French woman, an American and a Spanish national, judicial authorities said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 13 victims, eight were women and five were men.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-view-of-a-burnt-area-affected-by-wildfires-in-bedar-near-a-NSNRZB6QB5D7LBG33NNJLN3UZ4.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>Regional authorities initially believed 23 people were missing but they all have been accounted for since investigators identified all of the fire\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Gallardos fire affected some 70sq kilometres of forest and farmland. It was one of fire-prone Spain&#8217;s deadliest blazes in years.<\/p>\n<p>Spain is experiencing extreme heat, which, combined with wind and little rainfall, is creating the ideal conditions for small wildfires to grow unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>Europe is the world\u2019s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-view-of-a-burnt-area-affected-by-wildfires-in-bedar-near-a-FFRHWDVOMNEW3JNAZE7LWIEDLU.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>Fontainebleau fire in France under control<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures remained exceptionally high across France on Wednesday, with highs locally reaching 39C. <\/p>\n<p>The national weather agency M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France warned the combination of extreme heat and dry soil conditions continued to pose a significant wildfire risk across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze that swept through the historic Fontainebleau forest, south of Paris, and prompted the evacuation of several residential areas was brought under control, although firefighters continued to tackle small flare-ups in the affected areas, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-view-of-a-burnt-area-affected-by-wildfires-in-bedar-near-a-ALORG7XNKVE6DAMAJO7D4DQSWQ.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five days after a fire ravaged a remote expat community in southern Spain, authorities late Tuesday identified all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147,1745,4143],"class_list":["post-528798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-uk-europe","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}