Spain tackled several major wildfires on Tuesday in one of the country's most destructive fire seasons in recent decades, despite temperatures dropping across the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of firefighters aided by soldiers and water-bombing aircraft fought fires tearing through parched woodland that were especially severe in northwestern Spain,

Spain was still battling several wildfires on Tuesday that have ravaged a record area of land, said to be more than twice the size of metropolitan London. The country has grappled with a 16-day scorching heatwave,