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周六，数百名消防员在直升机和固定翼飞机的支援下，努力控制西班牙一场造成至少12人死亡的致命山火，这是该国最致命的山火之一。
安达卢西亚应急服务主管安东尼奥·桑斯表示，微风和高湿度的组合正在为消防人员提供帮助，但火势的庞大规模仍然构成挑战。这场山火已经烧毁了约25平方英里的森林和农田，面积大致相当于曼哈顿。
桑斯说，消防人员在火场周边进行了夜间受控燃烧。这场山火于周四晚间在阿尔梅里亚省塞拉德洛斯菲拉布雷斯山脉附近的半干旱地区爆发，当时西班牙正处于高温预警之下，酷暑难耐。
当局表示，大部分遇难者被认为是外国公民，他们无视就地避难的指令。其中7人在弃车步行逃生时死亡。
地区当局表示，其中4名死者被认为是英国人，因为他们烧毁的汽车方向盘在右侧，与英国车辆一致。
桑斯周六表示，当局已经完成尸检，并采集了DNA样本以确认死者身份。当局已将约11个地区的1448人提前疏散。
杰弗里·肯伯和克里斯汀·肯伯正在洛斯皮诺斯的农舍里观看一档喜爱的电视节目，这时警报器的鸣响提醒他们山火已经逼近。杰弗里·肯伯说，看到火势逼近，他和妻子各自跳进车里，同时还试图帮助一名带着两个学步儿童的邻居。
他描述了夫妇俩短暂失散的经过，以及他无法联系到妻子的原因——妻子没有带手机。
“我开车穿过火海。那真的是火焰。我当时想，‘我不能停下，我必须赶紧走’，”杰弗里·肯伯在疏散中心外陪着妻子告诉美联社记者。
“太诡异了，因为我突然冲出火海，外面却是明媚的阳光。那种感觉超现实，简直不可思议！”
西班牙近年来频繁遭遇严重热浪，气温经常超过104华氏度。大风、高温和少雨让小型野火演变为不受控制的大火。
司法大臣费利克斯·博拉尼奥斯周六将阿尔梅里亚山火的猛烈程度归咎于“气候紧急状态”。他说，火势最猛烈时，蔓延速度达到每分钟328英尺。
今年6月，西班牙经历了数日创纪录的高温，死亡人数超额超过1000人。
根据欧盟哥白尼气候变化服务中心的数据，欧洲是全球变暖最快的大陆，自20世纪80年代以来，气温上升速度是全球平均水平的两倍。西欧部分地区正面临六周内的第三次热浪。全球范围内，2025年是有记录以来第三热的年份，给欧洲带来了多轮强烈热浪。
西班牙对山火并不陌生，根据欧洲森林火灾信息系统的数据，去年的山火季烧毁了超过97.1万英亩土地，面积是伦敦的两倍，造成4人死亡。
西班牙最致命的山火发生在1979年，当时巴塞罗那以北约一小时车程的滨海小镇略雷特德马尔有21人丧生。
Hundreds of firefighters in Spain battle deadly wildfires that killed at least 12 fleeing flames
2026-07-11T10:17:50-0400 / CBS News
At least 12 people are dead as hundreds of firefighters backed by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft struggled Saturday to contain one of Spain’s deadliest wildfires.
A combination of light winds and high humidity are helping crews, but the sheer size of the fire still poses challenges, Antonio Sanz, head of Andalusia’s emergency services, said. The fire has scorched some 25 square miles of forest and farmland, about the size of Manhattan.
Sanz said fire crews carried out controlled burns overnight around the perimeter of the fire, which broke out late Thursday in a semi-arid area near the Sierra de Los Filabres mountains in Almeria province, just as Spain was sizzling under a high temperature warning.
Most of the victims, who are believed to be foreign nationals, died after ignoring shelter-in-place instructions, authorities said. Seven people died while on foot after abandoning their cars.
A picture taken on July 10, 2026 shows a helicopter dropping water in the area of a wildfire in Spain. JOSE JORDAN /AFP via Getty Images
Four of the dead were believed to be British because the steering wheel of their burned-out car was on the right side, as with British vehicles, regional authorities said.
Authorities had completed autopsies and DNA samples were collected to identify them, Sanz said Saturday. Authorities proactively evacuated 1,448 people from some 11 areas.
Jeffrey and Christine Kember were watching a favorite TV show in their Los Pinos farmhouse when the blare of a siren alerted them to the fire. Jeffrey Kember said he and his wife jumped into their respective cars at the sight of the advancing flames while also trying to help a neighbor with two toddlers.
He described how the couple briefly got separated and how he was unable to speak to his wife because she didn’t have a phone on her.
“I’m driving through the flames. It was actually flames. I thought, ‘I can’t stop, I just gotta go,’” Jeffrey Kember told The Associated Press, with his wife next to him outside an evacuation center.
“It was eerie because all of a sudden I came out of the flames and it was all bright sunshine. It was like surreal. Ridiculous!”
This image made from video provided by INFOCA shows firefighters battling a wildfire in Los Gallardos, near Almeria, Spain. INFOCA via AP
Spain has battled frequent and severe heat waves in recent years, with temperatures often exceeding 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind, high temperatures and little rainfall help small wildfires grow into unchecked blazes.
Justice Minister Félix Bolaños on Saturday attributed the ferocity of the Almeira wildfire to a “climate emergency.” He said the fire, at its most intense, advanced as fast as 328 feet per minute.
In June, Spain experienced several days of record-setting heat, with over 1,000 excess deaths.
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Parts of Western Europe are facing their third heat wave in six weeks. Globally, 2025 was the third-hottest year on record, bringing several intense heat waves across Europe.
Spain is no stranger to wildfires, with last year’s fire season burning more than 971,000 acres, according to the European Forest Fire Information System, an area twice as large as London. Four people died.
Spain’s deadliest wildfire was in 1979, when 21 people perished in Lloret de Mar, a coastal town about an hour north of Barcelona.
