However, experts have already emphasized that fighting the fires is not a hasty task and requires technical specificities, with a string of out-of-control fires currently raging.

Defense Minister Margarita Robles praised the actions of the Military Emergency Unit, the support of the Army in its various forms, along with forest firefighters.

But she recognized that in many cases, “we are in the hands of nature (rain, humidity),” because the voracity of some fires cannot be neutralized with existing resources.

The Ministry for Ecological Transition reported that as of August 10, at least 250,000 hectares had burned in Spain, after adding those counted by this ministry and the autonomous communities.

However, data collected by the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System indicated that the statistic is even higher in Spain, where a total of 344,417 hectares were affected by fire this year, as a result of 224 known fires.

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