EU sends wildfire help to Spain
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Spain on Friday warned of "very high or extreme fire danger in most of the country," as firefighters there continue battling 14 blazes in temperatures up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
A second volunteer firefighter has died after battling a wildfire in the northern Spanish province of Leon, while police arrested a man for allegedly starting a separate blaze as the country faced one of its worst summers for fires in 20 years.
Portugal suffered its first death Friday from the fires raging there, as Spain's weather agency warned of a "very high to extreme risk" of more wildfires there during Europe's intense heatwave. Further east, Greece was still fighting blazes on one Aegean island, but the situation had improved for several other southern European countries.
Fire crews in Greece, Spain, and Portugal are racing to contain wildfires. Calmer winds on Thursday have helped slow the blazes.
Spain travel disruption wildfires halt high-speed trains in Galicia, stranding passengers and affecting routes to Santiago and Madrid this week.
At least one person was killed in Spain where wildfires fueled by the current heat wave in Southern Europe continue to burn.
The wildfires sweeping the entire Mediterranean rim of Europe are the product of the capitalist nation-state system’s inability—as it plunges into a new world war—to confront the global climate crisis.
Almost no region of the country has been spared by wildfires, which have overwhelmed thousands of firefighters. 'Spain is burning,' declared the country's major daily newspapers on Wednesday.