Spain: Burgohondo fire under control after 25 days

The fire that broke out on July 22 in the municipality of Burgohondo (Avila), the largest ever recorded in Spain with over 50,000 hectares burned, is finally under control 25 days after it broke out. Specifically, the regional government of Castile and Leon declared the fire, which had a 160-kilometer perimeter, under control just before 7 p.m., at a time when expected lightning from thunderstorms triggered more than a dozen other fires in the region.

It will take time to tame it

This forest fire, the first to reach level 3 severity, which led to the declaration of a national state of emergency, is expected to take time to control and monitoring will continue even after the summer. The fire was declared under control after being stabilized on August 6. The Burgohondo fire occurred concurrently with severe fires in the Sierra de Madrid, further complicating the situation and increasing the risk of a possible merger of the two fires.