More than 1,350 residents have been evacuated in Spain’s northeastern region of Aragon as a wildfire spreads through a pine forest amid a lingering heatwave, a local official said on Sunday.Five villages were evacuated as flames devoured hills that are 375 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of Madrid, said Javier lamban, the President of Aragon. Some 500 firefighters and 26 aircraft were fighting the flames on Sunday, which were being fanned by windy conditions and were creating a large plume of smoke. In Portugal almost 100 firefighters were tackling a wildfire in Alcobertas, north of lisbon.
