
The Chairman of the Mancomunidad, the Almuñécar Mayor, his councillor for Urban Planning and the Head of the water untility company, Aguas & Servicios, had a good stare down a hole in the road.
When the fire swept across the hills behind Almuñécar and La Herradura, it destroyed more than vegetation in the form of mountain brush and irrigated land; it also melted kilometres of PVC irrigation pipes.