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Spain: Wildfire Near Barcelona Forces Residents to Evacuate, Shelter 2

A wildfire broke out Tuesday afternoon, August 25, in the Collserola mountain range near Barcelona, burning an estimated 35 hectares and prompting the evacuation and confinement of nearby residents due to heavy smoke. More than 160 firefighters and 12 aerial resources were deployed to contain the blaze, as emergency services received over 1,000 calls and authorities urged residents to stay indoors.

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Spain: Wildfire Near Barcelona Forces Residents to Evacuate, Shelter

A wildfire broke out Tuesday afternoon, August 25, in the Collserola mountain range near Barcelona, burning an estimated 35 hectares and prompting the evacuation and confinement of nearby residents due to heavy smoke. More than 160 firefighters and 12 aerial resources were deployed to contain the blaze, as emergency services received over 1,000 calls and authorities urged residents to stay indoors.

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Spain: Fire in Barcelona Metro Tunnel Seen From Glories Station

A fire broke out in the Barcelona metro's Line 1 tunnel between El Clot and Glories stations during evening rush hour on Monday, July 27, filling a train carrying around 300 passengers with thick smoke and prompting some to evacuate through the tunnel. Medical services treated 137 people for injuries. Authorities have not yet officially confirmed it. This video shows the fire seen from Glories station with smoke filling the tunnel and coming into the platform.

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Spain: Passengers Evacuate Station as Fire Breaks Out on Barcelona Metro

A fire broke out in the Barcelona metro's Line 1 tunnel between El Clot and Glories stations during evening rush hour on Monday, July 27, filling a train carrying around 300 passengers with thick smoke and prompting some to evacuate through the tunnel. Medical services treated 137 people for injuries. Authorities have not yet officially confirmed it.

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Spain: Wildfire Breaks Out in Cervelló, Near Barcelona

A wildfire broke out in Cervelló, near Barcelona, on Wednesday, July 22, forcing the confinement of about 300 people from Les Rovires and Can Paulet. The fire burned 16 hectares, officials said. No injuries have been reported.

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US: Time-Lapse Shows Massive Smoke From Babylon Fire in Utah

This time-lapse, filmed on Monday, July 6, shows massive smoke rising from the Babylon Fire burning near Monticello, Utah. The fire grew to 101,073 acres and reached 11% containment by Wednesday, with more than 1,353 personnel deployed to fight it. Five structures have been destroyed, and the cause remains under investigation.

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Spain: Massive Blaze Breaks Out at Honda Motorcycle Factory Near Barcelona

A major structural fire broke out on Friday, June 5, at the Montesa Honda motorcycle factory in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, near Barcelona, prompting the evacuation of around 150 workers from the facility and surrounding buildings. Authorities reported no injuries.

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US: Gas Line Explosion Reported Near Willow River in Minnesota, Forcing Evacuations

A large gas line explosion was reported on Friday, January 16, near Willow River in Pine County, Minnesota, forcing nearby residents to evacuate. Minnesota Energy Resources said customers in the area could be without natural gas for days, though authorities reported no injuries and suspect no criminal activity at this time.

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US: Gas Line Explosion Reported Near Willow River in Minnesota, Forcing Evacuations 2

A large gas line explosion was reported on Friday, January 16, near Willow River in Pine County, Minnesota, forcing nearby residents to evacuate. Minnesota Energy Resources said customers in the area could be without natural gas for days, though authorities reported no injuries and suspect no criminal activity at this time.

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Barcelona Honors 17A Bombing Victims on 8th Anniversary - Barcelona

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, during her visit to the Central Fire Station, on August 17, 2025, in Las Rozas, Madrid (Spain). Ayuso has taken stock of the interventions carried out in the framework of the INFOMA 2025 campaign, active from June 15 to September 30, as well as of the means sent to forest fire fighting operations in other regions. AUGUST 17;2025 Mateo Lanzuela / Europa Press 08/17/2025

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

Cars of the Mossos d'Esquadra in an area confined by fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced to confine this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

The toxic cloud caused by the fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

The toxic cloud caused by the fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

The toxic cloud caused by the fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

The toxic cloud caused by the fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

The toxic cloud caused by the fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

The toxic cloud caused by the fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

A police vehicle in an area confined by fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire With Toxic Cloud Alert - Barcelona

A police vehicle in an area confined by fire, on May 10, 2025, in Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. A fire in a chemical company in Vilanova i la Geltru has caused a toxic cloud that has forced the confinement of this municipality and four others: Sant Pere de Ribes, Cubelles (Barcelona), Cunit and Calafell (Tarragona). Citizens have received an alert on their cell phones early in the morning and will receive another one when the confinement is over. The fire is in the stabilization phase and firefighters have stopped the spread to neighboring buildings. Photo by Kike Rincon/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mass Electrical Outage - Spain

BARCELONA 29042025 - Service of the Fire Department of Barcelona Trains at a standstill, subways closed, road traffic paralyzed, flights canceled, communications partially cut... the Iberian Peninsula suffered an unprecedented blackout shortly after midday on Monday April 28. The causes have not yet been established. Photo by Lorena Sopêna/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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France: Thousands Protest In Paris Over Israel’s Deadly Strike On Rafah

Thousands joined protests in Paris on Monday, May 27 against Israel’s deadly strike on Rafah. The demonstrators gathered around the Israeli embassy with chants and slogans a day after the raid set off a fire and killed 45 in the Gaza city. Similar rallies were held in Madrid and Barcelona as well.

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Spain: Industrial Fire Sends Huge Column Of Smoke Over Badalona

A fire broke out outside a railway company in Badalona on Sunday, April 28 burning a pile of scrap metal. The flame sent a huge plume of smoke into the air which reached as far as Barcelona.

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Spain escaped extreme wildfires in July but summer fire threats remain, says senior firefighter

STORY: Spain escaped extreme wildfires in July but summer fire threats remain, says senior firefighter DATELINE: Aug. 5, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Catalan): MARC CASTELLNOU, Head of the Forestry Action Group (GRAF) of Catalonia's fire service STORYLINE: Spain managed to avoid the extreme wildfires seen in July in countries across the Mediterranean, but with the summer far from over, the country can still expect to be hit by fires, a senior Spanish firefighter told Xinhua in an interview on Friday. SOUNDBITE (Catalan): MARC CASTELLNOU, Head of the Forestry Action Group (GRAF) of Catalonia's fire service "We're in a much better situation than we expected, because we were expecting a terrible July, like the Greeks and the Italians have had. However, we still have a long August and September ahead. The whole area of the Mediterranean has suffered a profound two-year drought that began in 2021, and we all expected a very difficult summer, li

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Four killed after ultralight aircraft collide in Spain

STORY: Four killed after ultralight aircraft collide in Spain DATELINE: May 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of rescuers at the crash site STORYLINE: Two ultralight aircraft collided near an aerodrome in northeastern Spain on Sunday, killing four passengers, regional authorities said. The Catalan fire brigade (Bombers) confirmed on social media on Sunday that at 10:44 local time (9:44 GMT), they received the report of two aircraft falling to the sky close to the small aerodrome of Mola, north of Barcelona. Each aircraft was carrying two people and all four were confirmed dead. The authorities believe the two aircraft collided in the air. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Barcelona, Spain. (XHTV)

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3 die in house fire near Barcelona

STORY: 3 die in house fire near Barcelona DATELINE: March 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:58 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the flats affected by the fire STORYLINE: Three people lost their lives early Wednesday morning in a fire in a block of flats in the municipality of Rubi near Barcelona. The Catalan fire brigade confirmed the deaths after they had attended the blaze with 11 fire engines. They said that five more people suffered smoke inhalation. The three victims were all residents in the same first-floor apartment of the three-story building. They all died as they were trying to leave the building. Police are still investigating the cause of the fire. The local radio station (Radio Rubi) reported that neighbors had heard an explosion in the hall of the building and the flames appeared immediately afterwards. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Barcelona, Spain. (XHTV)

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Pit accident kills 3 miners in Spain

STORY: Pit accident kills 3 miners in Spain DATELINE: March 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: (courtesy of Fire Department of the Catalonia region) various of firefighters, ambulances, police, workers and relatives of the victims of the accident at the potash mine company in Suria, near Barcelona on Thursdayvarious of the potash mine company STORYLINE: Three people were killed in a potash mine accident close to Barcelona, northeast Spain, on Thursday morning. Confirming the deaths, the Catalan fire brigade informed that they received the report of the accident at 08:53 local time (0753 GMT) and arrived at the mine with nine rescue vehicles and a medical helicopter. The accident happened around 900 meters underground at the Suria potash mine. The causes are so far unknown. The three victims working for the company ICL Iberia were apparently in a gallery when the roof fell and buried them. Work is underway to recover the bodies, according to the authori

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Fire damages replica of Columbus' Santa Maria in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Firefighters fight to put out a fire aboard a replica of the explorer Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria on exhibition at the Meriken Park in Kobe on April 17. The fire was put under control about an hour later. The Santa Maria was the flagship of Columbus' fleet when he set sail on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492. The replica, about 32 meters long, was made in Spain in 1991. It spent the year of 1992 on an experimental voyage sailing from Barcelona to Kobe.

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Ecology expert warns against recurring wildfires in Spain

STORY: Ecology expert warns against recurring wildfires in Spain DATELINE: July 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:32 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: various of fire-stricken areasvarious of firefighters working STORYLINE: As firefighters in Spain this week brought under control wildfires in Catalonia, numerous blazes continued to rage around the country, in regions like Galicia, Castilla y Leon and Aragon. A new record was broken this week as over 193,000 hectares of land have been devastated by fire this year, surpassing the record of 189,367 hectares registered in 2012. On Wednesday, the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which uses satellites to track wildfires, confirmed that in just over six months, 193,247 hectares have so far been affected in Spain. It is a situation that the experts predict is unlikely to change any time soon. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): NARCIS PRAT, Emeritus Professor of Ecology at University of Barcelona "Everything suggests that we're moving towards a situatio

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Wildfires stretching across Spain as heatwave continues

STORY: Wildfires stretching across Spain as heatwave continues DATELINE: July 19, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:48 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the forest fire in the north of Barcelona (courtesy of firefighters of the Spanish region of Catalonia) STORYLINE: Wildfires have so far burnt more than 22,000 hectares of woodland and scrub in Spain since the start of the heatwave over a week ago, emergency services calculated. Temperatures above 44 degrees centigrade in southern and southwestern Spain and around 40 degrees centigrade for the rest of the country, coming on the back of exceptionally hot and dry months of May and June, have produced the perfect conditions for the wildfires to spread. In southwestern Spain's autonomous community Extremadura, the fire in the comarca of Las Hurdes remains out of control, while a new fire broke out on Saturday in the comarca of Valle de Jerte, which the Regional Government of Extremadura said "started in an absolutely deliberate manner."

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Fire damages replica of Columbus' Santa Maria in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Firefighters fight to put out a fire aboard a replica of the explorer Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria on exhibition at the Meriken Park in Kobe on April 17. The fire was put under control about an hour later. The Santa Maria was the flagship of Columbus' fleet when he set sail on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492. The replica, about 32 meters long, was made in Spain in 1991. It spent the year of 1992 on an experimental voyage sailing from Barcelona to Kobe. (Kyodo)