Fires in Spain

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The fires in Spain follow assets, after burning more than 17,000 hectares

Several fires followed assets this Friday in Spain, after burning more than 17,000 hectácreas with vegetation from the start of the week, causing the death of five firemen, informed the regional authorities.

Aragon, in the northeast, continued being more the affected region, with near 10,600 hectares set afire, in particular in the province of Teruel. About 500 specialized firemen and cash still fought the flames with the aid of several airplanes, informed in an official notice the regional Government.

Although the temperatures will reach 35°C during the day, with persistence of the wind, the “perspective of extinction” are nevertheless “a little more favorable” than in previous days, it added the part.

A driver of a truck pump died Thursday in the fire fighting.

A new fire in the evening declared Thursday in the Mountain range of Goatherd, in the province of Almeria.

More than 1,500 people they were evacuated of his houses in Turre as a result of the fire and some could return to their homes the morning of this Friday.

“The meteorological conditionses follow adverse”, with temperatures that could reach 45°C and a relatively low humidity, it added the regional Government and it needed that “the height of the flames lowered during the night”.

In Horta de Sant Joan, Tarragona, the fire caused to the death Tuesday of four firemen and devastated 1,200 hectares and east Friday is in the morning in “phase of control”.

“The wind calmed and the flames no longer advance. The work of extinction could still last two days”, said to AFP a spokesman of the firemen of Catalonia.

In Castilla-Leon, the regional Government calculated in 3.000 hectares the surface burned in the region of Treviño, in Burgos. The fire is stable from Thursday. In this same region, 1,200 hectares burned in the province of Soria.

One of both fires declared in the province of River basin east Friday had been controlled and the other follows assets. 3,000 hectares were devastated by the fire.