NAVAS REY: Spanish tle to stop the inferno residents forced to flee spreading.
some of the worst wildfires In the evacuated village in living memory began of Navas del Rey, eyewitreturning to their homes on nesses saw scenes of devasTuesday, after the country tation, with blackened lifted evacuation orders for debris, ash and burnt-out more than a dozen areas. cars stripped of their tyres, But in France, thouseats and paintwork.
sands more people were Maria Paz Bolanos, 62, ordered to flee, as fears returned with her family grew that another searing to their home and garden heatwave would prevent in a housing development containment of fires that in the town -and found it have ripped through the only slightly scorched.
southwest. ‘We’ve been here 50 Swathes of tinder-dry years,’ she said. ‘It must forests, parched land and have been grandfather, property have been my father in heaven. He destroyed west of the somehow made it so the Spanish capital, Madrid, fire just came in through and in France’s Gironde and stopped right there.
and Landes regions, foreThe mayor of nearby ing tens of thousands to Pelayos de la Presa, head to safety. Antonio Sin, described Spain’s interior ministhe scene for returning try announced the end of villagers as ‘a war zone’.
evacuation orders for 13 ‘It has been a horrenmunicipalities on dous fire, a brutal one -Tuesday afternoon, in It’s a monster that has run rare good news in the batover us,’ he said.-AFP