“We’re actually staggered by what we’re seeing in Spain, and as forest firefighters in Castilla y León specifically.”

These have been the phrases this week of members of the INFOCYL brigade which is battling the fires in Castilla y León area, with two useless and plenty of different forest blazes spreading across the nation.

For the reason that begin of the second heatwave of the 12 months, greater than 60,000 hectares of land has been burned in Spain in 10 days.

Dozens of villages and cities have been evacuated as they have been deemed to be beneath risk from the unpredictable forest fires.

Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca Information