The news revolves around the fires and the heat, which we won't shake off in a few days. While the Generalitat Firefighters continue to give their all, there are still hundreds of people who have experienced and are experiencing hours of anguish. Don't miss this chronicle by Albert Dumenjó and Pere Virgili in La Pobla de Claramunt, where some neighbors told ARA that “the five firefighters slept on the floor of their house in case the fire reignited”. These are days of emergency and discomfort, physical and psychological, and we must face them with the best possible spirit.

It is destined to be the metro work with the longest tunnel in Europe. But the L9 works have already earned the title of "historic" and "controversial" for years, both for the delays the project has accumulated since the first plans and for the 6,000 million euros of cost overrun, according to the Court of Auditors. And since this Tuesday also for the 8-meter sinkhole that has forced the evacuation of six buildings in the Putxet neighborhood of Barcelona. But, at what point is this work? Where is the tunnel boring machine going? How does this large machine work and how is the tunnel built? We explain it to you in six key points:

After a year of shutdown due to wear on the cutting wheel, the tunnel boring machine on Barcelona Metro's Line 9 received a new part this afternoon, enabling it to continue working. Technicians have already begun lowering all the parts into the shaft on Mandri Street to assemble the front part of the cutting wheel, and the Regional Minister for Territorial Operations, Silvia Paneque, explained that, once ready, the machine will be put back into operation in early autumn.