Military Called in and Town Locked Down After Wildfire Takes Hold in Spain

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A fire declared last night from Monday to Tuesday, in the Barranco de las Cinco Villas, in the municipality of Cuevas del Valle, in the south of the province of Ávila, forced for a little more than ten hours the "partial confining" of the population of the next municipality of Mombeltran, located in the foothills of Puerto del Pico.Due to the "serious risk to the population, goods or significant forest damage" and due to the rapid spread of the …

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The Military Emergency Unit (UME) has joined in the early morning of this Tuesday with the work of extinguishing a forest fire in the Barranco de las Cinco Villas, in the...

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Ávila, 30 Jul (EFE).- The advance of the flames towards the Abulense town of El Arenal has forced to confine this municipality, of about 1,000 inhabitants, due to the thick smoke coming from the fire that was declared on Monday night in the Barranco de las Cinco Villas, south of Ávila. As the forecasts of yesterday Tuesday pointed out, the fire has been pushed by the flames from the area of Cuevas del Valle and Mombeltran, which also suffered a …

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The advance of the flames towards El Arenal, a town of almost 1,000 inhabitants in Ávila, has forced their total confinement. The measure is due to the thick smoke coming from the fire that was declared Monday night in the Barranco of the Five Villas, south of the province. As expected, the fire, pushed by the flames from Cuevas del Valle and Mombeltran (which also suffered a partial confinement), has gone towards El Arenal. The neighbors have w…

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The advance of the flames towards the town of El Arenal has forced to confine this municipality, of about 1,000 inhabitants, due to the thick smoke coming from the fire that was declared on Monday night in the Barranco de las Cinco Villas, south of Ávila. On Tuesday, a fireman died in a traffic accident when he was going to join the fire extinguishing efforts.