An abseiler lost his life in a narrow series of cascades in the Barranco de Trevélez where it passes through the municipality of Carataunas. The Guardia Civil has repeatedly warned people about how dangerous this area is.
It was only last month that a hillfire above the Embalse de Béznar caused concern in the valley and now there is another one not far from the first.
A beachgoer in the province of Almería had to be resued after he injured himself jumping from rocks into the sea.
A man in his late 80s died in Sopotújar on his land because of a hill fire which he had unwittinly cause when burning cuttings.
A brush fire broke out in Motril last Saturday which required the intervention of the forestry-fire service, Infoca
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 helicopter flown by drug runners, which was used to sneak in low below the radar, crashed in an olive grove in the town of Pedrera (Sevillia). Both occupants were killed in the crash.
A Guardia Civil rescue helicopter lifted an angler off the rocks yesterday morning after he had suffered a fall.
A hill fire broke out in the Los Guájares area of the Costa Tropical yesterday, requiring a deployment of Infoca
The Guardía Civil have carried out three rescues starting last weekend, two in the Sierra Nevada and one in Otívar.