The simultaneity of fires in Madrid complicates extinction efforts, with three active fires within a radius of less than 20 kilometers. Thus, in addition to the fires in Almorox (Toledo) and Burgohondo (Ávila), a new fire has been added in San Martín de Valdeiglesias (Madrid) after a car caught fire on the M-501, with the added difficulty of them being very close to each other and in three different autonomous communities.

Bombers de la Generalitat has been working since this morning against a vegetation fire declared at 12:45 in the municipality of Lladurs (Solsonès) affecting the Santa Eulàlia area, where the fire has been gaining intensity. This fire coincides with the forest fire declared on July 8 in the Pla de Manlleu, between Aiguamúrcia and Sant Jaume dels Domenys (Tarragona), of similar characteristics, which initially forced about 500 people to be confined through the Es-Alert system and affected 89 hectares, of which 74 were forest and 15 agricultural, according to provisional data from the Agents Rurals.

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