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Sunday, August 26, 2012

A home evacuation due to forest fires in Spain



Spanish authorities said on Sunday, he thousand homes were evacuated because of forest Hariqy in the south of the country, making it the worst summer for rural fire consumed within a decade.

Local officials said that a fire broke out near the Bidar area, located at a distance of eighty-five kilometers north of Almeria province, where residents spent the night in a sports center.

Maria Gonzalez said, the mayor of Bidar, population and military personnel cooperated with firefighters in fire fighting.

The fire was brought under control last late Sunday, near Estepona product overlooking the Mediterranean Sea at a distance of about thirty-five kilometers west of the city of Marbella.

Spain lost this year 149,300 hectares of forest and countryside in more than 11650 forest fire, compared to about 107 thousand hectares in 2002 Whole, according to official statistics.

Seven people and three firefighters and four civilians, were killed, as a result of forest fires during the current year, and destroyed parts of the rarest forests Spanish. Among the areas where fire destroyed Park "Jarakhonay" National, on the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site and located in La Gomera in the Canary Islands.