Uk tourists face 'most dangerous' spain holiday season 'for 50 years'

THE RISK OF FOREST FIRES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION HOLIDAY HOTSPOT HAS SPARKED URGENT WARNINGS FROM EXPERTS. 10:51, 04 Jun 2025 Millions of UK tourists face the "most dangerous"

holiday season in Spain "for decades". The risk of forest fires in the European Union holiday hotspot has sparked urgent warnings from experts. Andalusian president, Juan Manuel

Moreno, warned of a "difficult summer". The Infoca Movement collective and main firefighting union branches have expressed their concern of a ‘high risk’ start to the season, which

began on June 1. It was an ‘especially rainy’ spring resulting in a high load of plant fuel, paired with extreme May temperatures not recorded for more than 50 years. The unions also

pointed out that Andalusia has ‘the lowest number of active forest firefighters in decades.’ READ MORE ALL THE PARTS OF ENGLAND SET FOR 'AT LEAST 30C' NEXT WEEK IN UK HEATWAVE “In

the transition from one agency to another, all processes have been delayed,” said a spokesperson from Infoca Movement. Article continues below “In most of the checkpoints, which should have

seven people, we have three or four . There has been a lack of planning and organization of the operation when they have had months to do so calmly. With all of this, the first thing that is

compromised is our safety.” One local is pessimistic about the days, weeks, months and years to come. “This was a warning,” she said. “There’s a lot of the summer left and things could

still get much worse. The ground and the vegetation are getting drier with each passing week and the temperatures are going up again.” It was high time, she added, that people reevaluated

the climate crisis. “Where I live in Castilla y León, there was a fire 15 years ago that burned through 4,000 hectares, and people talked about how huge that was,” she said. Article

continues below “Now it seems quite small. It’s like in London: people used to think 30C was very hot and now it’s hit 40C. "People need to change their perceptions.” It comes after

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was unequivocal about the consequences of the climate emergency during a visit to the south-western region of Extremadura. “I want to make something

very clear,” he said. “Climate change kills: it kills people, as we’ve seen; it also kills our ecosystem, our biodiversity, and it also destroys the things we as a society hold dear – our

houses, our businesses, our livestock.”