It's thought the fire was started by solar panel workers.
The number of people evacuated by the Cortes de Pallas fire in Valencia has now risen to 1,000. The smoke from the fire has closed four roads.
The town of Dos Aguas had to be evacuated on Thursday, and today other nearby municipalities have also been evacuated.
In Adilla the Mayor says they are ‘desperate’ and that extinguishing the fire is ‘proving very complicated’. More than 200 local residents have had to leave their homes in the municipality.
The residents have been taken to Turis or Macastre where facilities are being prepared for them. Some residents of Cortes de Pallás are now being allowed back home.
The President of the Generalitat regional government, Alberto Fabra, flew over the affected area by helicopter and he said that the thousands of hectares affected presented a ‘gruesome and devastating’ landscape. He described the fire as ‘the largest in recent years’, but declined to put a number on the hectares destroyed. (typicallyspanish.com)
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