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English: Two disastrous wildfires broke out in Spain in the afternoon of 27 August: the first near the municipality of Almonaster la Real, in Andalusia, the other in Cabezuela del Valle, in Extremadura. In total, more than 11,000 hectares have burned and more than 2,500 people were evacuated as a precaution. Despite the intervention of numerous teams of firefighters and air vehicles, due to the strong winds that lash the area, the fires were still out of control two days after they started. Upon request from the “Centro de Coordinación Operativa (CECOP) de la Dirección General de Protección Civil y Emergencias” (Spanish Civil Protection Directorate), the Copernicus Emergency Management Service has been activated for the production of cartographic products for the delineation of the affected areas. Two delineation maps have been delivered. Check EMSR457 and EMSR458. This image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 29 August shows the burn scar and a fronts of the wildfire still active in the area of Almonaster la Real. Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite is a two-spacecraft satellite mission useful to deliver strategic data to improve knowledge about disasters and climate change.