The new deployment of firefighting soldiers will help douse the 20 or so active large-scale wildfires in Spain that have caused the loss of homes and businesses, the closure of roads and railway lines, and, during the past week alone, the loss of three lives.

Deadly wildfires ravaging Spain have burnt the equivalent of nearly half a million football fields this year, setting a new record for the country, a

Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to battle fast-spreading wildfires, as a brutal heatwave and strong winds leave nearly the entire country at extreme risk. Fires have already scorched land equal to the size of London and killed seven people.