Madrid, Aug. 19 -- The Spanish government will declare areas affected by the deadly wildfires in northern Galicia province as disaster zones, Euro News reported.

On Tuesday, firefighters were working for a 10th consecutive day to contain a dozen fires that have collectively burned nearly 4,000 square kilometres of Spanish woodlands, Euro News reported.

The fires are among Spain's most destructive in recent decades and continue despite falling temperatures across the Iberian Peninsula following a record-setting European heatwave. Thousands of firefighters, aided by soldiers and water-bombing aircraft, are battling blazes that have hit north-western Spain particularly hard, where the national weather agency AEMET reported a still "very hi...