Consuelo Lorza, 88, and her 11-year-old granddaughter, Sara, at an evacuation center in Villamanta, Spain, a town southwest of Madrid, on Sunday, July 26, 2026. In central Spain, thousands of people are sleeping in shelters or in their cars, some of them evacuated multiple times ahead of advancing flames, awaiting word on what they left behind. (Joseph Fox/The New York Times) By CARLOS BARRAGÁN Arantxa Alcázar stepped into her garden on Thursday when she heard police officers shouting at…
