00:01Monday and Tuesday will be key days for controlling the fires in the vicinity of Madrid.
00:07The advance of these historic fires slowed, but authorities said
00:13On Monday, they want to stabilize the perimeter of the fires before a new wave of
00:19Heat is forecast for the middle of the week, which could complicate the situation.
00:25The fires burned tens of thousands of hectares and forced the evacuation of 75,000 people.
00:32from their homes or vacation spots.
00:35In the areas where the fire was already under control, some people began to return.
00:40In the mountains west of Madrid, where many escape the summer heat, this campsite
00:46It was burned to a crisp.
00:48I am very horrified to see this.
00:50This is the worst thing that can happen to you, watching your business slowly burn down.
00:54It's a feeling of helplessness and great discomfort.
01:01It's not knowing what to do and not knowing how to be.
01:06Not knowing whether you'll be able to pull it off or not, which I think is impossible, is unacceptable.
01:10take out.
01:11So it's very complicated.
01:15There is nothing, there is nothing left.
01:20This is sad.
01:24This place is so beautiful.
01:31He had arrived this year.
01:33And he's working at the bar, right?
01:35Public Relations.
01:36Ah, yes.
01:37I was working here in Public Relations.
01:42This fire, which started in the province of Ávila, but spread to the region of
01:47Madrid is the site of the largest forest fire in recent Spanish history, with almost 50,000
01:53hectares affected, the government reported on Sunday.
01:57The drought and heat waves that have occurred since June increased the flammability of the
02:02forests and complicated the firefighting efforts.
02:05And in addition to the fires in the Madrid area, another outbreak has occurred in the east of the country, in
02:12Valencia.
02:13We've had quite a scare, haven't we?
02:17We left Villa Vieja, we are from Villa Vieja and we left, well, running, running
02:23because the Civil Guard came to our home and, well, they kicked us out saying we were running
02:31the danger.
02:32A scare, an experience that was our first experience of this kind.
02:38Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said that the fires are not a series of events.
02:45not isolated episodes, but the most painful expression of climate change.
02:51The climate emergency, this sustained and systematic increase that we are seeing every year
02:56Regarding temperatures, what they are doing is exponentially increasing the expansion
03:02and the level of the fires we are experiencing.
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