Cooler temperatures and calmer winds helped firefighters make progress Sunday against wildfires that have swept across northwestern Spain, officials said.In Lugo province in Galicia, 142 brigades and 26 water-bombing aircraft were tackling the largest blaze, which broke out Thursday and has burnt around 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres), the regional government said.
"It is very stable, it had a calm night," Galicia's regional minister for rural affairs, Maria Jose Gomez, told reporters during a visit to the affected areas.
A separate fire in neighbouring Ourense province, also ignited Thursday, has been extinguished after destroying 273 hectares, mostly of scrubland.
Dozens of residents who were evacuated overnight Friday because of the two blazes have since returned home.
Temperatures, which soared above 30C last week in parts of Galicia, dropped sharply on Sunday, with Lugo forecast to reach a high of just 15C.
Light rain in parts of the region has also helped firefighting efforts.
Western and northwestern Spain, along with Portugal, were hit by devastating wildfires this summer.
Four people died in each country, with nearly 330,000 hectares burned in Spain and almost 250,000 hectares in Portugal, according to the European Forest Fires Information System.
