A wildfire alerts response was triggered Friday afternoon after a wildfire broke out in Collserola Park near Barcelona and spread through the Sant Pere Màrtir hillside. Twenty firefighting units were mobilized, and the Esplugues City Council ordered the evacuation of the Espai Mireia restaurant as a precaution.
Carretera de les Aigües fire
The fire started near the Carretera de les Aigües around 15:30, then moved quickly through the hillside above Esplugues. Ten crews came from the Barcelona Fire Department and ten crews came from the Generalitat, while the Generalitat also dispatched a helicopter to support ground operations.
Barcelona wildfire action plan
The Barcelona City Council activated its municipal wildfire action plan after the Generalitat raised the Alfa Plan to level 3 in the Barcelonès region. That step put the city’s emergency response under a higher alert setting while crews worked in a zone that borders both natural terrain and nearby neighborhoods.
Collserola Park calls
Within an hour, emergency services received nearly a thousand calls from citizens. Collserola Park covers over 8,000 hectares, and the current heatwave affecting Catalonia had already led to maximum fire risk protocols, making the rapid spread through the Sant Pere Màrtir hillside part of a wider emergency picture for Barcelona and Esplugues.
For residents near the affected area, the immediate instruction was to stay clear of the evacuation zone and follow the municipal wildfire action plan while crews kept working. Whether the blaze was contained and how much land burned were not stated in the source, so the practical position for anyone near Collserola Park was to treat the area as active until authorities changed the alert.
