{"id":1527652,"date":"2026-07-24T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1527652"},"modified":"2026-07-24T03:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:10:37","slug":"spain-declares-an-emergency-after-wildfires-force-evacuations-of-10000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1527652","title":{"rendered":"Spain declares an emergency after wildfires force evacuations of 10,000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1527653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1527653\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/APTOPIX_Spain_Wildfire_26205257009725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1527653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/APTOPIX_Spain_Wildfire_26205257009725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/APTOPIX_Spain_Wildfire_26205257009725-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/APTOPIX_Spain_Wildfire_26205257009725-1018x678.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/APTOPIX_Spain_Wildfire_26205257009725-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1527653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents spend the night at a sports center after being evacuated from their homes because of the threat of a wildfire in Cebreros, \u00c1vila province, Spain, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP Photo\/Manu Fernandez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spain\u2019s government declared a national emergency Friday after multiple wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The measure means that Spain\u2019s interior ministry, which control police and security forces, has taken charge of overseeing the firefighting efforts by Spain\u2019s regions.<\/p>\n<p>The regional government of Madrid, which spans a wide area around the capital city, said 10,000 people have been evacuated from different villages as fires rage out of control amid a heat wave that is fanning the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has seen over 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) already burned this year, including its second-largest ever fire that consumed some 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) in recent days in the province of Guadalajara. Thirteen people were killed in a fire in southern Spain earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s government declared a national emergency Friday after multiple wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1527653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-world-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-26 03:10:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527654,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527652\/revisions\/1527654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}