The fire started on Friday in the Mijas mountain range inland from the southern coastal city of Malaga and prompted the evacuation of around 3,000 people. About 2,000 people have since returned to their homes, and now that the fire has stabilized, Mr. Moreno said the remaining evacuees may do the same. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is to visit the hard-hit eastern region of Extremadura, where several fires have been raging for days. In Portugal, almost the entire country remained on fire alert despite a slight drop in temperatures after reaching 47 degrees Celsius – a record for the month of July – on Thursday. Only one large fire was burning on Sunday in the north. The fires killed two, injured around 60 and destroyed 12,000 to 15,000 hectares of land in Portugal. The mercury is expected to reach 38C in parts of the Netherlands on Tuesday.
