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The Local Police and the Guardia Civil have released a woman who had been held against her will for six days in a flat in O Porriño, Pontevedra. Thanks to the fact that the victim was able to throw several notes of help through one of the windows of the building she was able to be rescued. One of the neighbors found two notes on the floor, under a window. […]

During the afternoon of Tuesday, three new forest fires have been declared in the province of Malaga. These correspond to the towns of Estepona, Benahavís and Mijas, the latter being the most worrying, since the flames have reached some homes. The Infoca Plan troops and local firefighters are already working on its extinction. The forest fire in Mijas has been declared in the area of La Majadilla del Muerto. Carmen […]

A woman has been arrested for locking her 94-year-old grandmother in a flat in Granada. In addition, she left her without food or hygiene for long periods of time. Faced with this situation, the victim tried to commit suicide, but the National Police has rescued her. The agents have received an alert from the neighbors that the woman intended to jump off a balcony. They quickly mobilized and accessed where […]

It has been two weeks since the second summer heat wave began, taking more than 1,000 lives and causing fires in much of Spain. The predictions of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) indicate that extreme temperatures will fall in the coming days. But could another heat wave come back in August as strong as the one we are experiencing? Today, forecasts suggest that August will start with heat, but it […]

The Junta of Castile and León denounces the probability of a human origin, "intentionally or recklessly", for the three new fires registered this Sunday in Vegalatrave (Zamora), Quintanilla del Coco (Burgos) and San Juan de la Nava (Ávila). "The first indications indicate that the fires are not spontaneous, but that the man’s hand would be behind," explains the counseling through a note. Several houses burn in Santibáñez del Val, Burgos […]

The heat and extreme temperatures that are reaching during these days end the life of another worker in the municipality of Paracuellos del Jarama in Madrid. This is a 56-year-old man who died this Thursday from a heat stroke while working distributing propaganda among mailboxes, according to Emergency 112. The first assistance to the man was made by the local police of the municipality. It has been several people who […]

While Spain is still submerged in a wave of fires that devastates everything, the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has stepped in to confirm that it will be able to predict the risk of fires seven days in advance. A week that can be very important to activate the fire protocol in areas where that risk exists, which right now is almost the entire Peninsula, influenced also by the high temperatures […]

The fire in Ateca was caused by a spark from one of the excavators of the reforestation company Land Life, which at four o'clock in the afternoon made the holes for planting trees in one of its projects in Zaragoza. The fire has already devoured more than 14,000 hectares since last Monday 18, but right now it evolves favorably. Reforestation work was being carried out by a local contractor who, […]

The wave of fires in Spain does not stop and in the last hours a new fire has been declared, this time in Madrid, specifically in the municipality of Guadalix de la Sierra, at kilometer 17 of the M-625. There, eight fire crews are working in the area since early morning to try to smother the flames. The declared fire in Madrid extends over an area of 8,000 square meters. […]