{"id":250954,"date":"2026-07-24T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250954\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:27:10","slug":"spain-declares-an-emergency-after-wildfires-force-evacuations-of-10000-people-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250954\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain declares an emergency after wildfires force evacuations of 10,000 people | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spain\u2019s government declared a national emergency Friday after multiple wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The measure means that Spain\u2019s interior ministry, which control police and security forces, has taken charge of overseeing the firefighting efforts by Spain\u2019s regions.<\/p>\n<p>The regional government of Madrid, which spans a wide area around the capital city, said 10,000 people have been evacuated from different villages as fires rage out of control amid a heat wave that is fanning the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has seen over 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) already burned this year, including its second-largest ever fire that consumed some 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) in recent days in the province of Guadalajara. Thirteen people were killed in a fire in southern Spain earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spain\u2019s government declared a national emergency Friday after multiple wildfires forced the evacuation of some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,5535,49,35,38,107304,55197,301],"class_list":["post-250954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-evacuations","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-spain-wildfires-emergency","tag-wildfires","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}