Wildfires threatening areas near Madrid have stopped spreading and there are "almost no flames", Spanish authorities said Thursday as a new fire in western in Spain forced the evacuation of 600 people.
"Night-time weather conditions have made it possible... to cool the area and reinforce the perimeter, which is clearly stabilised, with no spread for several days, few smoking spots and almost no flames left," the prefecture of the Madrid region said.
There were no longer any "active fronts," they said, specifying that only around a thousand people remained evacuated.
But authorities warned that the ongoing heatwave threatens a resurgence of fire in areas west of Madrid, where more than 25,000 hectares (61,776 acres) have already gone up in smoke.
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