Spain’s Interior Ministry

Spain battled multiple major wildfires on Tuesday in what has become one of its most destructive fire seasons in recent decades, even as temperatures eased across the Iberian Peninsula.

Thousands of firefighters, supported by soldiers and water-dropping aircraft, worked to contain blazes ripping through parched woodlands. Conditions were especially severe in northwestern Spain, where the national weather agency AEMET warned of a “very high or extreme” fire risk, particularly in the Galicia region.

In Galicia, fires have devastated small, sparsely populated towns, often forcing residents to act before firefighters could reach them.

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