Spain and Portugal battle wildfires
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This year is turning into one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory in Europe. Firefighters are struggling to contain out-of-control wildfires in western Spain and Portugal.
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Al Jazeera on MSN‘Flames that consumed the hills’: Portugal, Spain reel from wildfires
Emergency services are under strain due to the ‘worst’ fires in Portugal in years, Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego says.
Up to 20 major wildfires are burning in total, the majority in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia, while there are several blazes in neighbouring Portugal.
Firefighters have been battling to put out blazes across southern Europe in one of the worst summers for wildfires in 20 years