{"id":684276,"date":"2026-07-10T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684276\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:33:11","slug":"spain-wildfire-latest-at-least-12-dead-as-crews-battle-to-contain-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684276\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain wildfire latest: At least 12 dead as crews battle to contain blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent heatwaves leave Europe vulnerable to wildfirespublished at 11:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A firefighting plane dumps water over a wildfire in Los Gallardos. Smoke can be seen on grassland near the plane\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6ff9e660-064a-4d57-918b-d18fbf978a79.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A firefighting plane dumps water over a wildfire in Los Gallardos<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heatwaves across Europe have dried out vast areas of land and made them particularly vulnerable to wildfires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fire danger remains at very high or extreme levels in much of the country,&#8221; Spain&#8217;s meteorological agency says, urging people to &#8220;take extra precautions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June, Spain reached its highest daily average since 1950, and had days where it recorded its highest ever temperatures for that month. Temperatures as high as 42C (107.6F) were forecast in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world, and Europe is the fastest warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is causing increased summer heatwaves, greater pressure on Europe&#8217;s water supply, and more intense wildfires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildfire in southern France has also forced thousands of people to evacuate as the country faces an early summer heatwave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fires have also affected Spain where more than 2,200 hectares in the natural reserve of Les Gavarres in the north of the country have been destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent heatwaves leave Europe vulnerable to wildfirespublished at 11:40 BST 11:40 BST Image source, ReutersImage caption, A firefighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-684276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}