
With 16,000 visitors expected each day over this long bank holiday, safety is being taken very seriously at the Sierra Nevada skiing resort.
It was at 21.26h on Friday that a fireball crossed the sky , witnessed by quite a few people in the centre and south of Spain.
On the 21st of September, summer drew to a close and the Guardia Civil could tot up just how many times it had gone out to rescue people: 45 times.
The Junta de Andalucía will pump relief funding into the publicly owned company that runs the Sierra Nevada ski resort, Cetursa.