King Felipe VI is closely monitoring the evolution of ongoing wildfires and has maintained contact with ten mayors of municipalities affected by the fires in the Community of Madrid and the western sierra region. According to the Casa Real, the monarch has engaged in conversations with local leaders as emergency operations respond to multiple simultaneous blazes across various regions of Spain.
The wildfires have prompted major emergency responses and evacuations across the country. In the province of Ávila, a large operational deployment is working to prevent the spread of a massive fire that has already destroyed between 13,000 and 15,000 hectares, forcing the evacuation of 30,000 people toward the Alto Tiétar area. Meanwhile, emergency personnel, military units from the UME, and civil protection teams are stationed in the Madrid municipality of Cenicientos to manage the firefighting efforts.
Additional flare-ups have affected other parts of Spain. In the province of Granada, a forest fire declared on Saturday in Pinos del Valle led to the confinement of residents and the precautionary evacuation of a hundred people from a youth camp, including 73 minors. In Castellón, the Emergency Coordination Center ordered the confinement of Vilavella, a town of 3,000 inhabitants, due to the fire in La Vall d'Uixò.
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