Spain deployed hundreds more troops and awaited EU reinforcements, as wildfires tore through the country due to what the prime called a climate emergency.

A firefighter was killed when his truck overturned in northwestern Spain, authorities said Monday, raising the death toll from more than a week

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.