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  • let's turn to wildfires now which have continued to break out in Northern Spain following heat waves coursing through the country.

  • The most serious one is in the Sierra de la Culebra mountain range that's in the northwest of the country and it has destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of woodland.

  • Let's hear more now from the BBC's.

  • As a day, Moshiri Spain's wildfires are becoming relentless.

  • Burning Thousands more hectares of land.

  • Spain suffers through its earliest heatwave in decades.

  • While officials say cooling temperatures have helped them tackle some of these blazes.

  • Not all regions have been so lucky.

  • Sierra de la culebra in Northwestern Spain has seen some of the worst blazes.

  • Entire villages have had to be evacuated with this sports center turned into a shelter.

  • I didn't want to leave.

  • If they wouldn't let me take the dogs, we have to stay here.

  • We don't know if the house is safe or if it's burnt down.

  • In the northeastern region of Navarra, firefighters fought to protect a pig farm near this blaze and this is what's left of some of the region's forests, scorched earth near villages in the area we were afraid because we saw the fire very close to the village, we saw it everywhere.

  • These are the first wildfires Spain has seen, but climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is fueling these fires and scientists say global warming is making these extreme weather events become more severe happens sooner than usual and more frequently for now.

  • The focus is on getting a handle on the fires that are tearing through Spain's land as the day Moshiri BBC News.

let's turn to wildfires now which have continued to break out in Northern Spain following heat waves coursing through the country.

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