{"id":692085,"date":"2026-07-15T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692085\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:48:07","slug":"seven-britons-among-those-killed-in-spain-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692085\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Britons among those killed in Spain wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, officials said seven of the victims were from the United Kingdom, three from Belgium, one from France and another from the United States. The last victim was a Spanish citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#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 class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the British nationals who died were couple Pete and Fran Gillam, who lived in B\u00e9dar, the village that bore the brunt of the wildfires. Their deaths were confirmed by their family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Posting on Facebook, their daughter Danielle Gillam-Kirton, from Sheffield, said the family were &#8220;heartbroken to share that we have received confirmation from the police that Mum and Dad did not survive the fire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire, which has now been contained, burned through about 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of land, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain has suffered frequent and severe heatwaves in recent years, with temperatures often exceeding 40C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, officials said seven of the victims were from the United Kingdom, three from Belgium, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692085","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=692085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}