Wildfire in Spain’s Catalonia closes main motorway, trainline

MADRID (Reuters) – A wildfire in Spain’s northern Catalonia region forced emergency services to order the closure of the main AP-7 motorway and a high-speed rail link, emergency services said on Saturday.

A forest fire in Agullana, near Girona, forced the closure of the AP-7 motorway and the high-speed rail from Figueres to the border with France, firefighters said.

Twenty-seven fire engines and seven aerial units were sent to try to put out the forest blaze.

“We are working to extinguish a forest fire. We have asked to cut the traffic of the AVE rail line and the AP-7 in both directions from Figueres to the border with France,” the Catalan firefighters said in a post on the social media platform X.