News Summary

• Farmer Juan Ángel Izquierdo says it is hard not to worry about wildfires.
• In the last 40 years, damage caused by Spanish fires each year has exceeded 200,000 hectares on eight occasions – three of those since 2022.
• The Socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has described the fires in dramatic terms, placing Spain in the front line of an environmental crisis.
• "The climate emergency kills," he said in July, during a visit to the southern province of Almería where a wildfire claimed 15 lives.