{"id":517629,"date":"2026-07-25T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/wildfires-force-the-evacuation-of-73000-people-in-madrid-and-avila\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:05:04","slug":"wildfires-force-the-evacuation-of-73000-people-in-madrid-and-avila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/wildfires-force-the-evacuation-of-73000-people-in-madrid-and-avila\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires force the evacuation of 73,000 people in Madrid and \u00c1vila"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Madrid, Spain.<\/strong>\u2013 The Spanish Government ordered this Saturday the evacuation of another <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"674892\"><strong>30,000 people<\/strong> <\/a>due to two large forest fires that remain out of control in the provinces of <strong>Madrid and \u00c1vila<\/strong>, raising to <strong>73,000<\/strong> the number of citizens displaced by these disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fires, which are advancing simultaneously and remain close to each other, have affected several communities in central Spain, where emergency agencies are working to contain the flames and protect the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the total number of evacuees, some <strong>38,000 correspond to the province of \u00c1vila<\/strong>, while around <strong>35,000 belong to the southwest of Madrid<\/strong>, as reported by the Government delegate in Madrid, <strong>Francisco Mart\u00edn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the affected municipalities is <strong>Cenicientos<\/strong>, the town where the advanced command post was installed to coordinate emergency efforts, but which also had to be evacuated. For this reason, the operations center will be moved to <strong>Navalcarnero<\/strong>, in Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new evictions cover <strong>seven towns in \u00c1vila and two in Madrid<\/strong>, located in the Ti\u00e9tar River valley, an area of high environmental value that has been one of the hardest hit by the fire in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recommend reading:  <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/evacuan-siete-municipios-burdeos\/\">Seven municipalities near Bordeaux evacuated due to the advance of a large forest fire<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to preliminary data from the Ministry of the Interior, the fire recorded in \u00c1vila has destroyed between <strong>13,000 and 15,000 hectares<\/strong>, while the one in Madrid has consumed nearly <strong>10,000 hectares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francisco Mart\u00edn pointed out that the evolution of the fire in the Ti\u00e9tar valley continues to be \u201cvery intense\u201d and that the authorities&#8217; priority is to <strong>protect lives and ensure safe evacuations<\/strong>. So far, no serious personal injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid, Spain.\u2013 The Spanish Government ordered this Saturday the evacuation of another 30,000 people due to two large forest fires that remain out of control in the provinces of Madrid and \u00c1vila, raising to 73,000 the number of citizens displaced by these disasters. The fires, which are advancing simultaneously and remain close to each other, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133559,"featured_media":517630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2aER","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/incendio-forestal-carretera-m-206-entre-torrejon-ardoz-loeches-23-julio-2026-2884752-1200-700.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Preciosa Jimenez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/incendio-forestal-carretera-m-206-entre-torrejon-ardoz-loeches-23-julio-2026-2884752-1200-700.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}