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"Today's fires are not those of the past." With these words, the president of Spain's Catalonia region, Salvador Illa, concluded his July 8 visit to the command center in Tortosa, Tarragona province, which had issued instructions, day and night, to the hundreds of firefighters mobilized to fight one of the summer's first major wildfires. Catalonia has been suffering from brushfires since early July, much like a major part of the Mediterranean basin and even northern Europe. Such an early onset of the fire season is unprecedented.

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In Catalonia, entire neighborhoods of the town of Tortosa (population 35,000) and neighboring villages were placed under lockdown for three days to allow residents to protect their homes from within, as it was too dangerous to evacuate them due to the fire being fanned by strong winds. Between the fire in Tarragona and another that broke out days before in the agricultural region of Torrefeta i Florejacs, in the center of the neighboring Lérida province, nearly 40,000 people were ordered to stay indoors.

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