Firefighters battle blazes that engulfed large forest areas in Spain's Catalonia province amid Europe heatwave that sent temperatures soaring
A Spanish forest fire raged out of control on Thursday amid a European heatwave, devouring land as hundreds of firefighters battled through the night, local authorities said.
The fire could eventually devour 20,000 hectares in what was presented as an "extreme risk," a statement said. "The difficulties are such that we can't talk about a fire that is under control or in the extinction phase, but rather, that we're at a moment when the blaze is getting bigger," regional interior Minister Miquel Buch told Catalan radio.Some 350 firefighters backed by around 120 soldiers and 15 aerial tanker aircraft were at the scene of the blaze, the worst in Catalonia in the last 20 years.
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