MADRID: Strong winds increasingly complicate the battle against the API that has ripped off more than 3,600 hectares of forest land, encouraging 1,000 people evacuation in Southeast Spain and leading to the death of a firefighter.
Military emergency brigades were on standby with interference, because hundreds of firefighters worked all night to clean the burning materials and open firewalls in mountainous forests in Malaga Province, regional authority on Friday.
Allegedly combustion.
The aircraft and amphibious helicopters continued their work threw water from the air in the first light.
The fire broke on Wednesday, but flames flames on Thursday and last night with wind to 50 kilometers per hour, sometimes with a direction shift, which made spelling flames more difficult.
The Andalusian region emergency service said that 1,004 residents in Estepona, a resort city popular among expatriates and foreign tourists, and three other cities closer to the fire was transferred to a house of relatives or emergency accommodation in the pavilion.
A 44-year-old firefighter was killed on Thursday while trying to extinguish the fire.
Forest fires, some natural and other human beings are common in southern Europe during hot and dry summer months.
From the beginning of 2021 to August 29, around 74,200 hectares (186,000 hectares) of the forest area and the bush had been burned in the country, according to official data from the Spanish Ecological Ministry.
Strong winds complicate wild fire battles in Southeast Spain
