{"id":307209,"date":"2026-07-28T00:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307209\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:28:15","slug":"wildfire-smoke-chokes-skies-in-spain-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307209\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Smoke Chokes Skies in Spain and France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">Wildfires in France and Spain last week have blazed toward cities, forced evacuations by land and sea and wreathed the skies of southern Europe in stifling smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">Already broiling under intense summer heat, more than 300,000 people in France and Spain fled their homes or were ordered to remain indoors as dozens of fires moved across parts of each country. In France, one official called two severe fires the \u201cogres of the summer.\u201d In Spain, another labeled one blaze \u201cthe worst wildfire in the Madrid region\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">The Spanish government declared the fires in the Madrid region a national emergency, and both countries requested additional aid from the European Union to combat the fires and help people affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfires in France and Spain last week have blazed toward cities, forced evacuations by land and sea and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5886,84246,7465,9,24,63,1671,2208,129,131,130,25998],"class_list":["post-307209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-europe","tag-fires-and-firefighters","tag-france","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-politics-and-government","tag-spain","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}