The forest fire in Rubió (Anoia) affects 47 hectares of forest area, according to provisional data from the Agents Rurals, who indicate that the flames started in Castellfollit de Boix (Bages). The Firefighters are working with 50 teams, 14 of which are aerial, on a fire that was detected around half past four this Tuesday afternoon in the area of the Can Massana hermitage.
A few days ago, technicians from the Barcelona City Council dismantled once again, table by table and chair by chair, what has been known for several years as the largest illegal terrace in the city. This is another consequence of the tourist overcrowding that affects this side of Barcelona.
Summer has begun in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat with several prolonged power outages lasting hours that have affected thousands of residents of the second city of Catalonia. In this context, the City Council has held several meetings with Endesa, a company that this Tuesday presented a coke plan to try to solve the problem.
The Los Gallardos fire in Almería has not only forced the deployment of the largest firefighting operation in recent years in Andalusia, but it has also caused the first political friction between the partners of the new Andalusian Government. Just a few hours after Juanma Moreno appeared alongside Pedro Sánchez in Turre to warn that forest fires are “increasingly dramatic” in a context marked by climate change, Vox publicly came out to correct that narrative. “Climate change cannot be an excuse to shirk responsibilities,” said the party’s spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Millán, on Tuesday.
The firefighters of the Community of Madrid have rescued a 45-year-old woman who was sleeping in a paper container on Folklore street, in the southern Madrid municipality of Rivas Vaciamadrid, from a recycling truck.
The investigation into the death of Nikoline, the 17-year-old Norwegian teenager who died after being hit on the A-7 while enjoying a vacation on the Costa del Sol, advanced this Tuesday with the arrest of a man as the alleged perpetrator of the hit-and-run. The Civil Guard officers are trying to confirm whether the van undergoing a forensic inspection was the vehicle that struck the young woman and whose driver fled without stopping.
An insufficient injection of concrete into the cavity is emerging as the cause of the sinkhole in the works of L9 of the metro in Putxet that forced the indefinite evacuation of the residents of eight buildings in the area. This was pointed out today by the Minister of Territory, Sílvia Paneque, in an interview on the program Els matins de TV3, in which she indicated that the events are still under investigation.
The summers? –answers Otilia with a slight gesture of surprise, sitting on a bench at the tremendously historic nougat and horchata shop Planelles Donat in Barcelona–, well, the summers were always like the winters, working, attending to customers. Yes, well, in winter you mainly sell nougats and in summer mainly horchatas, but…”.
Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. Three fires in five days. All three started in the municipality of Aiguamúrcia, in Tarragona, and just a few kilometers apart. The last one, which forced the evacuation of four residential areas and the confinement of more than 2,000 people, was declared stabilized late Monday afternoon, after burning about 142 hectares. Shortly after, Protecció Civil authorized the return of all evacuees.
The Madrid City Council evicted about 30 people a couple of years ago under the argument that it was going to undertake works in the common areas of the building of the San Francisco Senior Apartments, located at 1 Jerte Street, in the Centro district, near the Latina area. These are elderly people, who in some cases have low incomes or do not have a large family network to be cared for. Most had to find housing solutions due to pressure from the council.