Spanish firefighters are battling forest blazes that have destroyed hundreds of hectares of parched land and forced scores of people from their homes.
Nearly 500 emergency workers were fighting two blazes in the central province of Guadalajara on Saturday, according to the regional Castile-la-Mancha agriculture ministry.
Firefighters backed by water-dumping aircraft were deployed over an area of 2100 hectares near the village of Cogolludo and 1000 hectares near the hamlet of Bustares.
Officials said on Friday that those two fires had destroyed at least 1000 hectares between them, including part of the Sierra Norte national park. The ministry didn't say exactly how much land had been burnt by Saturday.
Authorities evacuated 180 residents on Friday from four villages threatened by the two fires.
They say the Bustares blaze was accidentally started by a beekeeper and the flames in Cogolludo were sparked by a combine harvester.
Elsewhere on Saturday firefighters in Ujue, near the northern city of Pamplona, brought under control a wildfire that had destroyed 900 hectares of land, the Navarra regional police force said.
Spain is highly prone to forest fires in summer because of soaring temperatures, strong winds and dry vegetation.
Temperatures have soared close to 40 degrees Celsius across Spain this week.
The heat eased on Saturday but authorities warned that high winds could continue to fan the flames.
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