Two people were injured, trying to put out a fire on vega farmland between Motril and Salobreña this afternoon.
The fire was phoned in to 112 around 14.15h; the first of around 40 calls.
The emergency call centre despatch both the Almuñécar and Motril fire services, as well as alerting the forest-fire service, Infoca.
Also sent in were the Policía Local, the Policía Nacional and personnel from the Agrupación de Voluntarios de Protección Civil de Motril.
The fire was near the N-340 main road and affected vegetation on uncultivated land and threatened two cortijos, according to a spokesperson for one of the fire services at the scene.
Infoca pitched three airborne units; a heavy-lift helicopter (MA-4) and two land-based, single-engine, water bombers (Sky Tractors), as well as a fire engine.
Two individuals who tried to help put out, a 39-year-old woman and a 15-year-old lad, suffered minor burns and were attended to by medical personnel.
(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photos: Paula Rogers & Steve Campen)
How very odd. I saw the black smoke rising at about 1030. Brunch time.
Black may well be plastics from the hot houses. Definitely going well before 1415.
I all bonfires were banned from April 10th. They were burning in La Herradura on Sunday.