Los Mossos d’Esquadra have fired at the vehicle of a multiple repeat offender who tried to escape by running them over this afternoon around 4 p.m. on Torrent del Gornal street in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, a very busy road. No injuries have been reported, although the car of the person who tried to flee, who was eventually arrested, was damaged.
Every July 16th, numerous coastal municipalities in Spain celebrate the Day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of sailors, fishermen, and the Spanish Navy. The tradition, deeply rooted in towns along the Mediterranean, the Cantabrian Sea, and the Atlantic, originates from the devotion to the Virgin of Mount Carmel and has become one of the most emblematic religious festivities of the summer.
A woman and her two minor children have died this Wednesday by drowning in the reservoir of the Navarrese town of Roncal, a bathing area, in the Esca river.
The Bombers of the Generalitat are working this Wednesday afternoon to extinguish another fire burning intensely in Sant Quirze Safaja (Moianès) with 18 ground units and 3 aerial units. According to provisional data from the Agents Rurals, who are working on the causes of the incident, the fire affects an approximate area of about 70 hectares.
Los Bombers de la Generalitat are working on a new vegetation fire with several hotspots in the municipality of Querol (Alt Camp), specifically in the Santa Maria area. They received the alert at 15:53 on Wednesday and have deployed twelve teams, with seven ground units, three helicopters, and two planes.
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.
