So far this year there have been 388 forest fires in Spain that have consumed 286,418 hectares of vegetation. Spain accounts for 43% of all such fires in the EU.
The Los Guájares forest fire has become the biggest in Granada in the last 22 years, after wiping out 2,800 hectares, of mountain shrub, pines and Spanish oaks.
The Guájar Alto fire, which broke out around 13.50h, had necessitated over 200 firefighters and 21 aircraft, including two twin-engine amphibious bombers by 19.00h.
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