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Hot record. Spain 510 dead in 7 days.
The heat wave that has hit Spain for days has caused 510 victims.
The number is reported by the Efe news agency based on data from the Carlos III Health Institute. The data, which adds the same source, relates to the period 10-16 July.
Of the recorded deaths, 442 are people over the age of 75. Madrid dealing with about 20 fires that are still not under control in different parts of the country, from the south to Galicia, in the far north-west.
Here the flames destroyed about 4,500 hectares of land. The latest victims of the fires are a firefighter, who died Sunday evening of burns while trying to put out the flames in the Zamore province in the northwest of the country, and a sheep farmer found lifeless in the same hilly area.
'Climate change kills,' said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during a visit to the Extremadura region, where firefighters fight three large fires.“It kills people, it kills our ecosystems and biodiversity,” he stressed, linking the situation in Spain to climate change.
The heat wave in the country is expected to subside on Tuesday, but the respite will be brief as temperatures will rise again on Wednesday, especially in the dry region of western Extremadura.
Record heat and maximum alert for fires also in Portugal, where they reached 47 degrees centigrade, a record for the month of July.
In the Lusitanian country, fires have so far killed two people, injured about 60, and destroyed between 12 thousand and 15 thousand hectares of land.
The French region of Gironde is also in the grip of two huge forest fires that have so far burned more than 14,000 hectares of vegetation, also reaching the Atlantic coast, and forced the evacuation of over 5,000 people from their homes.
That of France, at the moment, remains the most serious situation with the Parisian authorities engaged on two fronts.
About 4,200 hectares went up in smoke in La Teste-de Buch, near the Arcachon basin: the situation quickly worsened when the fire crossed the departmental road 218 along the coast on Sunday evening.
On social networks, photos and videos, taken from the sea, show the huge front of the fire, several tens of meters high, which devours the beaches of the Lagoon and Salie, a few kilometers south of the Dune du Pilat.
From Monday morning, 'navigation is also prohibited in the western part of Lake Cazaux-Sanguinet', explains the prefecture. In the second fire in Landiras, inland, the flames burned 9,800 hectares.
The fires and heat waves that are ravaging vast areas of the planet show that humanity is facing 'collective suicide,' warned United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, reprimanded by the Guardian, as governments around the world struggle to protect people from the impacts of extreme heat.
Guterres told ministers from 40 countries gathered to discuss the climate crisis: 'Half of humanity is in danger, due to floods, droughts, extreme storms, and fires.No nation is immune. Yet we continue to feed our dependence on fossil fuels ”. And he added: “We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands ”.
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