Wildfires force evacuation of residents from Spanish towns

Spain’s Agricultural Ministry has warned that the risk of wildfires is high across most of the country due to soaring temperatures, strong winds and parched vegetation.

They were taken overnight to nearby towns, the Spanish government said in a statement to reporters on Saturday.

The cause of the fire was still undetermined but “everything seems to indicate” that arson was to blame, he added.

He said indication critical towards the occurrence of a great number of differentiate starting a fire elements, suggesting that in fact “man’s finger ought to be behind majority of these fires”.

According to the BBC, campsites and towns in Spain have been evacuated as helicopter and planes assist in tackling the problem of the blaze in Sierra de Gata mountain area.

Winds were expected to slow throughout the day, helping firefighters to bring the blaze under control.

Meanwhile, at least 600 other firefighters were battling four other wildfires burning in Spain’s southeastern region of Murcia on Friday.

The fires, which were all started on Thursday by lightning strikes, have so far burned more than 700 hectares of land, local officials said.

Vara also said that this was the fifth fire in the area in recent months.

The ministry said forest fires in Spain have burned 128,000 acres through July this year, compared with 114,000 acres in all of last year.

August 2003 had beforehand been the most well liked month on document with a mean temperature of 26.2 levels Celsius.

Germany is facing its hottest temperatures on record, with meteorologists saying temperatures in Germany’s south could exceed the country’s all-time high of 40.3 degrees celsius today.