
Many people saw the column of smoke above the vega of Salobreña this morning, but there’s no reporting on it, so we phoned the Motril fire station for info.
It was hardly a large fire but it did attract the attention of people on their balconies in flats facing across the mainroad in Salobreña.
At the moment the forest-firefighting entity, Infoca, is tackling a hillfire in the Sierra de Lújar area, within the municipality of Vélez-Benaudalla.
This time the accident occurred in Salobreña around 10.00h yesterday morning on the N-340 and involved a car, as well.
The Motril fire service dealt with a small fire next to the grounds of the Colegio Juan Ramón Jiménez, which is just below the main road in Salobreña.
A car caught fire on the main drag down to Salobreña beach during the late morning of Sunday – nobody was hurt.
Several inhabitants of a block of flats in Salobreña had to be temporarily evacuated after a fire broke out, gutting at least one apartment.