The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this afternoon that he has asked the European Commission to locate the European hub for firefighting in the Western Mediterranean on the island of Mallorca. At this time, there is already an operations center of this nature operating in Cyprus that covers the Eastern Mediterranean.
The start of another long heat wave has once again brought, as feared, new forest fires in Catalonia. After a few days of respite, coinciding with the drop in temperatures, the return of the dreaded heat and the fall in humidity activated two forest fires this Wednesday between Alt Camp, Baix Penedès, and Garraf, starting at noon, just as the thermometer began to reach maximum values. About 3,600 residents from urban centers and relatively nearby residential areas to the fires have been confined preventively and temporarily, controlled throughout the afternoon thanks to the intense work of the Generalitat Firefighters.
“On Saturday around half past one in the morning, I started receiving messages from citizens who thought their houses were burning, we also had to start evacuating the nursing home and make more difficult decisions; literally, I thought the whole city was on fire.” This is how Tania Baños, mayor of La Vall d’Uixó, describes the most tense moments experienced after the hellish fire broke out, forcing thousands of residents of the Castellón town to evacuate, who have spent several days on edge facing the threat of fire over their homes.
The detainee as the alleged author of negligence that caused the fire in Burgohondo (Ávila), the largest in Spain’s history, with 50,000 hectares burned, is the owner of the machine that started it, whose company was hired by a local livestock association to open a path for the cows.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this afternoon that he has asked the European Commission to locate the European hub for firefighting in the Western Mediterranean on the island of Mallorca. At this time, there is already an operations center of this nature operating in Cyprus that covers the Eastern Mediterranean.
The start of another long heat wave has once again brought, as feared, new forest fires in Catalonia. After a few days of respite, coinciding with the drop in temperatures, the return of the dreaded heat and the fall in humidity activated two forest fires this Wednesday between Alt Camp, Baix Penedès, and Garraf, starting at noon, just as the thermometer began to reach maximum values. About 3,600 residents from urban centers and relatively nearby residential areas to the fires have been confined preventively and temporarily, controlled throughout the afternoon thanks to the intense work of the Generalitat Firefighters.
“On Saturday around half past one in the morning, I started receiving messages from citizens who thought their houses were burning, we also had to start evacuating the nursing home and make more difficult decisions; literally, I thought the whole city was on fire.” This is how Tania Baños, mayor of La Vall d’Uixó, describes the most tense moments experienced after the hellish fire broke out, forcing thousands of residents of the Castellón town to evacuate, who have spent several days on edge facing the threat of fire over their homes.
The detainee as the alleged author of negligence that caused the fire in Burgohondo (Ávila), the largest in Spain’s history, with 50,000 hectares burned, is the owner of the machine that started it, whose company was hired by a local livestock association to open a path for the cows.
The Junta of Castilla y León decreed this Wednesday the maximum level (2) of the Potential Severity Index (IGR) for the forest fire affecting the municipality of Fermoselle (Zamora), a locality in the Arribes del Duero natural park bordering Portugal, due to the serious risk it may pose to the population. As a consequence of this fire, the localities of Cibanal, Formariz, Fornillos de Fermoselle, Palazuelos de Sayago, Pinilla de Fermoselle, Mámoles, and Záfara have been evacuated, in addition to decreeing confinement in Fermoselle, as confirmed by the 112 of Castilla y León. An alert has been sent via mobile phones with an Es-Alert message.
The human being has an amazing ability to move quickly from one situation to another. From living in sports centers, sleeping next to dozens of people they barely know in military bunk beds, eating whatever was given to them, to returning home and resuming routines as if the previous experience had never happened.
The Mossos d’Esquadra from the Sant Martí police station arrested at the beginning of July the woman who was murdered by her partner on Tuesday night. The now detainee reported her for mistreating him and their two children and accompanied the complaint with a video, according to La Vanguardia from sources close to the investigation. The woman was arrested, no precautionary measure was imposed against her, and on Tuesday night she was stabbed about ten times by her partner, who later surrendered at the Mossos d’Esquadra police station in Eixample.
The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed to summon as a suspect on September 10 the former director of the Civil Guard Leonardo Marcos in the case being investigated against an alleged plot aimed at destabilizing the judicial proceedings affecting the PSOE and the Government.
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has authorized the UDEF, through the money laundering service SEPBLAC, to analyze several dozen accounts of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his daughters, Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa, his secretary, Gertrudis Alcázar, his friend Julio Martínez Martínez, and several companies under investigation amid suspicions that all of them might have concealed funds or moved money of illicit origin.
In his end-of-political-course assessment, Pedro Sánchez celebrated last Tuesday the recent endorsement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of the Amnesty law: “It has confirmed that we acted in accordance with the law to promote reconciliation.” “It was a brave but necessary decision that allows us to look to the future together again,” he emphasized. He even stressed that “a success of the Amnesty law is that the PP and Junts are reunited, nothing more and nothing less.” However, the President of the Government said nothing in his appearance about the fact that the Council of Ministers had just approved, in its last meeting before the August break, granting a partial pardon to Laura Borràs, which will prevent the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia from going to prison, as later revealed by the Ministry of Justice.
