‘I had an incredible escape’: British woman tells of close encounter with Spanish wildfire

Jeanne Henny, 74, put her friend, a wheelchair and two dogs into the car and drove away, only to meet fire surging on to the road The speed, scale and ferocity of the wildfire in and around the Bédar municipality of Almería took everyone by surprise. Jeanne Henny, an English woman who has had a house in the tiny hamlet of Los Pinos for 33 years, initially took Thursday afternoon’s yellow skies as proof that a calima wind from the Sahara was showering desert dust on the area. Then she noticed the smoke and saw from a fire alert app that a blaze had broken out. Continue reading...

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