{"id":521525,"date":"2026-08-14T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/wildfires-ravage-europe-dozens-injured-and-thousands-evacuated\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:36:27","slug":"wildfires-ravage-europe-dozens-injured-and-thousands-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/wildfires-ravage-europe-dozens-injured-and-thousands-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires ravage Europe: dozens injured and thousands evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Europe.-<\/em><\/strong> Several forest fires are affecting different areas of <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/muerto-y-heridos-tras-explosion\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"699349\">Europe<\/a> this Friday, leaving <strong>dozens of people injured and thousands of residents and tourists evacuated<\/strong>, especially in Croatia, France, and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Croatia, at least <strong>36 people were injured<\/strong>, ten of them seriously, due to a forest fire that reached several residential areas on the country&#8217;s coast, authorities reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/costa-rica-envia-102-bomberos\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"699680\">Costa Rica sends 102 firefighters to Canada to help fight forest fires<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire forced the evacuation of <strong>more than 2,000 tourists and residents<\/strong>, while emergency teams work to contain the flames and prevent them from continuing to advance toward other populated areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Croatian fire chief, <strong>Slavko Tucakovic<\/strong>, described the incident as \u201cone of the worst fires in the history of Croatia\u201d and noted that the flames have consumed between <strong>900 and 1,000 hectares of land<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The situation has also triggered emergency measures in other parts of the continent. In <strong>France and Germany<\/strong>, authorities have ordered evacuations in areas threatened by fires, while firefighters and emergency teams remain deployed to combat active hotspots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High temperatures, dry conditions, and strong winds have complicated extinction efforts and increased the risk of fire spread in several European regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authorities maintain surveillance and recommend that the population follow the instructions of emergency agencies regarding the evolution of the incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe.- Several forest fires are affecting different areas of Europe this Friday, leaving dozens of people injured and thousands of residents and tourists evacuated,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521526,"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,"_dum_aida_pretitle":"","_dum_aida_subtitle":"","_dum_aida_city":"","_dum_aida_author":"","_dum_aida_caption":"","_dum_aida_captionauthor":"","_dum_aida_quote":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntitle":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntext":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[43601,44182,40349,40317,40853,44698],"class_list":["post-521525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-breakingnews","tag-cover","tag-europe","tag-injured","tag-thetruthnewspaper","tag-wildfires"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bFH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Plantilla-para-portal-2026-08-14T103418.629.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Plantilla-para-portal-2026-08-14T103418.629.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521525","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}