The Mayor of El Pinar, Francisco Titos, called for volunteers amongst his fellow villagers to cut out a fire break near the Ermita del Cristo del Zapato.
The train driver could only repeat, “I don’t know what to do,” so the passengers decided to abandon the train that was immobile before a wall of flames.
The Granada-city-based fire service was called out to the Nevada Shopping Centre in Armilla to put out a fire in a transformer hut within the centre’s parking area.