Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday presented what he called Spain's biggest-ever campaign against forest fires after deadly blazes devoured a record amount of land last year.
Spain is one of the southern European countries on the front line of climate change as higher average temperatures stoke heatwaves, droughts and forest fires.
The country sweltered through its hottest summer on record in 2025, when almost 400,000 hectares of land went up in smoke, the highest figure registered by the European Forest Fire Information System.
"We will put in place all the resources" available to the government "to mitigate this emergency situation as much as possible and to prevent it happening again on this scale", Sánchez said at the Torrejón airbase outside Madrid.
He described the preparations as "the state's largest deployment for an anti-fires campaign... because we are also aware that, unfortunately, this threat is growing".
