![]() “If we have a normal summer … and conditions of low humidity combined with high temperatures, then we will see fires that quickly expand beyond our extinction capacity. ![]() ![]() While grateful that some desperately needed rain has finally fallen in recent weeks, he is ready for the worst - unless July and August buck Spain’s historic trend of being the hottest and driest months of the year. Larrañaga is one of the top fire analysts for the firefighters of Catalonia charged with safeguarding the region's homes and landscapes. This part of northeast Spain is, like large swaths of the Mediterranean country, braced for wildfires due to the lethal combination of a prolonged drought, record-high temperatures and increasingly dense woods unable to adapt to a fast-changing climate. SOLSONA, Spain (AP) - Surveying the hills covered with near bone-dry pines stretching to the Pyrenees in the distance, Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on guard. ![]()
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