
Guardia Civil investigations have turned up that the recent fires on the Salobreña vega were the result of farmers burning cuttings.
The forensic department of the regional police, charged with investigating forest fires, has identified the cause of two recent fires in the province.
Whilst you’re sitting there, lamenting what a dismal beginning the summer has made, the firemen in Granada have been putting out ten grass fires a day.
Just what is it with all the fires in el campo? July – September are supposedly fire-free months, unless such fires are licensed. Yet, every year, wood from the chirimoyos y olivos is burned in the Vega, day after day.