Four-Day-Old Forest Fire in Southern Spain Brought Under Control
Posted on: Friday, 12 August 2005, 09:00 CDT
Four-day-old forest fire in southern Spain brought under control
MADRID, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Spanish fire-fighters brought a forest blaze under control on Thursday after it burned for nearly four days in the southern part of the country.
The fire in the Sierras de Cazorla, Seguray las Villas nature reserve had been tamed by early Thursday, and fire-fighters, water- dropping planes from the outside region had been withdrawn, the state-run news agency Efe said, citing local fire-fighting officials.
The regional government estimated that the fire, which broke out Sunday and was caused by lightning, burned more than 5,100 hectares (12,600 acres) in total, most of them woodland.
About 1,500 people, many of them tourists, were evacuated from the area as a precaution, but have since been able to return.
Spain is experiencing its driest summer since record-keeping began in the 1940s, and has seen more than 50,000 hectares (123, 550 acres) of woodland ruined by about 5,000 forest fires so far this year.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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