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A cup with a little bit of coffee with milk left rests on the table of Uishèra’s cabin, early on Saturday, July 4th. We imagine that the shepherd has recently gone out to check the flocks, although we don’t see anyone on the mountain. We also don’t spot goats or sheep, nor their guard dogs. In case a protective dog shows up, Manu has a plan B, to climb the neighboring Montlude to avoid potential problems. But it is not necessary to put it into practice.

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When on Saturday, around 7:15 p.m., we were preparing the dinner service, we were surprised to see several military vehicles passing through the square. We were aware that there was a fire, we saw the column of smoke, but we did not think it was so serious. A few minutes later, the mayor called me to ask that we not open the bar and to be alert for a possible evacuation.”

The start of another long heat wave has once again brought, as feared, new forest fires in Catalonia. After a few days of respite, coinciding with the drop in temperatures, the return of the dreaded heat and the fall in humidity activated two forest fires this Wednesday between Alt Camp, Baix Penedès, and Garraf, starting at noon, just as the thermometer began to reach maximum values. About 3,600 residents from urban centers and relatively nearby residential areas to the fires have been confined preventively and temporarily, controlled throughout the afternoon thanks to the intense work of the Generalitat Firefighters.

“On Saturday around half past one in the morning, I started receiving messages from citizens who thought their houses were burning, we also had to start evacuating the nursing home and make more difficult decisions; literally, I thought the whole city was on fire.” This is how Tania Baños, mayor of La Vall d’Uixó, describes the most tense moments experienced after the hellish fire broke out, forcing thousands of residents of the Castellón town to evacuate, who have spent several days on edge facing the threat of fire over their homes.

Three and a half months ago, the Community of Madrid acquired a 485-square-meter penthouse on General Martínez Campos street, in the heart of the Chamberí district, for the regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso to use as a “temporary office” while the rehabilitation of the Royal Post Office is carried out, according to El País.

Manolo Verdejo can be considered almost one of the veteran firefighters of the Villalba park: he has been practicing the profession in the Community of Madrid for 24 years. “I had never experienced anything like this in a forest fire,” he tells La Vanguardia in a phone interview. “Three fires came together and we had to change the operation very quickly,” he admits.

The Fire Consortium has declared the forest fire, which started around 12:50 p.m. this Saturday in the Salt de l’Aigua ravine area of the Valencian town of Manises, as stabilized. However, the bad news is that the local City Council has reported on social media that the fire has claimed the life of one person. The council has decreed two days of official mourning, tomorrow and Monday.

Railway sinkholes in the districts of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi and Nou Barris, and a gas deflagration with more than 12 hours of flames in the main square of Sants-Montjuïc. In recent days, Barcelona has seen a series of disturbing incidents linked to public works that have generated a certain distrust among citizens. Technicians say there is nothing to fear, that it is just a coincidence and that one must have faith that things are done well. In the case of Sants square, the accessibility works for the metro station caused the perforation of a gas pipe this Wednesday, turning the street into an immense brazier two days before the anniversary of the inauguration of the 1992 Games at the Olympic Stadium, not far from here.

The streets of Gràcia are preparing for a new edition of their main festival, which will offer more than 900 free activities from August 15 to 21.