We might be in the cooler autumn but there is still the risk of hill fires, as Wednesday has shown with one declared within the municipality of Nerja, up in the Parque Natural de Sierras de Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama.
There were two road accidents on the A-44 on the northbound lanes yesterday morning with the second being a consequence of the first.
On the last weekend of last month, Játar (not far from El Pato Loco) was the scene of the first hill fire at the doors of summer.
A man thought that it would be a good wheeze to stroll into a fire station, hop into a fire truck and see if he could drive it… He couldn’t.
Infoca were called out, together with the Granada fire service, to tackle a hill fire near the Aquaola water park in Cenes de la Vega yesterday afternoon.
And here we go again with a hill fire barely a week after the most recent one and spring has not even arrived!
Three fire personnel from the Málaga provincial fire service were injured when their vehicle left the road and plunged down a steep embankment within the municipality of Totalán.
A fire is being tackled at the moment in the area of the hamlet, Gelibia.
A hill fire broke out yesterday within the municipality of Torrox in the area known as Tajo de la Zorra.
A mountain-brush fire in Gualchos (Castell de Ferro) broke out yesterday and thanks to the quick response of Infoca it was declared extinguished at 16.57h that same day.