Firefighters and Spain's military emergency personnel battled a wildfire in the Madrid region as the blaze raged out of control, fanned by strong winds
The director of Madrid’s emergency services said early on Monday that firefighters had established a perimeter around the blaze and would now deploy aircraft to drop water on the flames.
“There is no risk to any population right now. We will be well prepared if the fire changes course,” Carlos Novillo said in a video posted to social media.A spokeswoman for the emergency services confirmed a handful of isolated houses had been evacuated as a precautionary measure but no communities were at risk.
She could not confirm the source of the fire, which comes amid a heatwave across southern Europe that has sent temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius in Spain, leaving it highly vulnerable. Madrid emergency services said 16 crews as well as three aircraft were deployed to tame the blaze around the sparsely populated Robledo de Chavela region, 40km northwest of the Spanish capital.
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