Fires- Europe: Horror scenes with a train in flames in Madrid

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The moments of panic that prevailed on the train that stopped in the burning landscape in Madrid were recorded by a passenger who shared the footage on social media.

The images of a train in Spain that stops its route after arriving literally in flames are doing the rounds of the internet.

The moments of panic that prevailed on the train that stopped in the burning landscape were recorded by a passenger who shared the footage on social media.

The incident happened in Madrid, in the morning hours with the train continuing its journey a little later.

In Spain, about 20 fires are raging out of control in various parts of the country, from the south to Galicia in the northwest.

Today the authorities allowed 300 residents in the Malaga area (out of the 3,000 who had been forced to leave for precautionary reasons) to return to their homes.

The Spanish meteorological service predicted for today “significantly high” temperatures in most of the country and in the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean.

In Logrono, in the north, the thermometer is expected to show up to 42 degrees, while in Madrid and Seville the heat “hits red”, with 40 degrees.

In neighboring Portugal the situation is much better on the fire front and, for the first time since July 8, the temperature was not expected to exceed 40 degrees.

Only one major fire remains, near the community of Chávez in the north, but the civil protection service considers that it too is “essentially 90% contained”.

However, the authorities are not complacent, since even today the risk of fire remains “very high” or “high”, especially in central and northern Portugal. At the latest count, the wildfires that have swept the country over the past week have left behind two dead, 60 injured and 120-150,000 hectares of forest burned.

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