Wildfire in Spain burns down over 5,000 hectares of land

It was a wildfire of no mean proportions which broke out in the Sierra de Gata mountain range of Spain due to scorching temperatures – it has burned down more than 5,000 hectares of land.
As a result of the wildfire, nearly 1,400 residents of the villages of Acebo and Perales del Puerto, apart from holidaymakers from a number of mountain campsites, have been shifted to safer places in nearby towns of Caceres and Moraleja.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 8 August 2015.

Teams of 300 firefighters, backed by water-bomber aircraft, continue to battle the blaze which is being fanned by strong winds.
How the fire started is still not clear but, in the opinion of Guillermo Fernandez Vara, the head of the regional government, there are indications that it was manmade, it was arson.
As per statistics, wildfires have destroyed over 54,000 hectares of agricultural and forest land in Spain this year. This is in excess of the amount burned during all of the last two years combined. Most of these wildfires were in July, which was the hottest month of Spain on record according to national weather agency AEMET.
Incidentally, the average temperature in Spain last month was 26.5 degrees Celsius (79.7 Fahrenheit). Earlier, August 2003 had been the hottest month on record with an average temperature of 26.2 degrees Celsius.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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