Wildfires are burning in several Spanish provinces, forcing evacuations, and EU authorities say there is an extreme risk of further blazes breaking out in the country as a heatwave shows no signs of abating, Reuters reported. In the southern region of Andalusia, emergency services said they deployed aircraft on Thursday to water-bomb a fire near the village of Lujar in the Sierra Nevada mountains. They said flames estimated to have engulfed around 1,800 hectares led to more than 600 people being moved from their homes overnight. Authorities in the region, where temperatures were forecast to peak at 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) on Thursday, said other fires were burning in the provinces of Huelva and Jaen. No deaths have been reported in the current spate of still relatively small fires, which late on Wednesday also affected five other Spanish provinces, the Agriculture Ministry said.
