Wildfires fanned by a ten-day heatwave and strong winds continued to sweep across Spain on Tuesday, killing two people and forcing the evacuation of more than 6,000 residents. A 50-year-old man died from severe burns in Tres Cantos, a suburb north of Madrid, while a volunteer firefighter was fatally injured near Nogarejas in the León province, according to regional and national authorities. Fires were burning simultaneously in Castile-León, Galicia, the Madrid region and the tourist area of Tarifa in Andalusia, with more than 30 active blazes reported in Castile-León alone. In Galicia’s Ourense province, six fires have charred about 10,000 hectares, regional officials said, and flames have come close to Las Médulas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Emergency crews also battled rare “fire whirls” in the north-west as temperatures hovered above 40 °C. The Spanish Interior Ministry has activated a national coordination committee while nearly 1,000 soldiers assist overstretched firefighters. The state meteorological agency AEMET has placed almost the entire country under “extreme” or “very high” fire risk alerts, warning that the heatwave—already one of the longest on record—could persist into next week. Spain’s crisis is part of a wider Mediterranean emergency. Authorities evacuated about 7,700 people near Patras in western Greece and hundreds in Turkey’s Canakkale province, where strong winds and 33 °C heat hampered containment efforts. Albania has also reported a wildfire-related fatality. Meteorologists across the region expect temperatures to remain near or above 40 °C, prolonging dangerous fire conditions.