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Relief Team Mobilizes for Northwestern Spain Fires

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Northwestern Spain | August 2025
World Central Kitchen teams worked across northwestern Spain, supporting communities affected by the devastating wildfires in the area. We deployed our food truck and partnered with local restaurants to ensure families and first responders received the support they needed.

WCK’s Relief Team mobilized to northwestern Spain in mid-August to support communities in Ourense affected by the fires. As the blazes spread, our teams provided meals across four provinces: Lugo, León, Ourense, and Zamora.

These fires came during a deadly heat wave across the Mediterranean. In July, we responded to wildfires in Ávila that devastated communities and forced families from their homes.

WCK’s impact

8,800+

meals

served

Reaching the hardest hit communities

In response to recent wildfires in Spain, WCK teams mobilized to provide immediate support. We delivered meals in hard-hit communities like Juan’s, deployed our food trucks to emergency crew hubs & served thousands of meals across four provinces to first responders & families in need.

Mobilizing across the region

WCK teams are responding as wildfires in Spain intensify. We deployed our food truck to a new Advanced Command Post near Quiroga, close to expanding fires in O Barco and A Rúa. Our team served a hearty stew of potatoes and tuna alongside sandwiches, fruit, and cold water for first responders.

Meet Begoña

WCK is serving food in Ourense through our restaurant partners, who are preparing and delivering sandwiches, fruit, and water to response teams in wildfire-affected areas. In Verín, Begoña of Regueiro da Cova has been making sandwiches since the start—filled with fresh, local produce.

Help us keep cooking in Spain.