
A barn full of stacked hay bales went up in flames in La Atalaya, Cañete la Real, Malaga, which was the second fire in the province on Thursday.
Fire personnel from Almuñécar and two Infoca units tackled a mountain-brush fire on the Jete road just beyond the gasolinera heading north.
There is scant information available but there is a fire somewhere between Ítrabo and Móvizar, plainly visible from Motril, Salobreña and Otívar – where I am.
The Motril bomberos now have an all-terrain, 300 horsepower, fire engine that has a capacity of 3,000 litres of water. This big red toy can ascend gradients of up to 25%.
The Almuñécar fire service had to deal with a small fire on the Urbanización Los Pinos today. Resident were temporarily evacuated from their houses.
The Chairwoman for the Provincial Consortium of Fire Brigades handed over the keys for a new fire engine for the Almuñécar Fire Service (Servicio de Bomberos). The Mayor, Trinidad Herrera didn’t lose the opportunity to jump into the cab and have a photo taken.
Almuñécar firemen have to use the municipal cemetery as their base