Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited firefighter command posts near Madrid and Valencia on Sunday and Monday, declaring that "the entire Iberian peninsula is suffering the effects of the climate emergency" as wildfires forced roughly 116,000 people to evacuate across Spain. The blaze near Ávila, in Spain's central plateau, burned through 50,000 hectares — described by Spain's environment minister as the largest forest fire in the country's recent history — while a separate fire near Valencia killed at least one person and stretched beyond firefighters' capacity to contain. The crisis is part of a broader European emergency, with nearly 260,000 people also evacuated in France, where a massive wildfire in the Gironde region (a pine-forest-covered area of south-western France near the city of Bordeaux) has consumed roughly 42,000 hectares and generated its own weather system, complicating efforts to bring it under control.