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A firemen runs close to a fire burning near the village of Castrelo do Val, in Ourense, northwestern Spain, on March 27, 2012. A firefighter was killed fighting one of the wildfires that have devastated thousands of acres due to drought in northwestern Spain.
A villager looks at a fire burning close to the village of Castrelo do Val in northwestern Spain on March 27, 2012.
Associated Press reported on March 15 2012:
The landscape in northern Spain is now a palette in shades of ugly. Pale brown fields without crops or pasture stretch off into the distance. A pond for watering sheep has shriveled into a dustbowl. An irrigation canal down the road holds only stagnant water, murky from so much sediment and so little flow.
In Galicia, Spain's lushly green northwestern corner where it usually rains all the time, pastures have no grass this year. Farmers there and elsewhere are being forced to ship in food for sheep and cattle at a cost of $2.6 million a day, according to ASAJA national spokesman Gregorio Juarez.
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You're gonna need a bigger fire extinguisher.
Dunkin H, I believe that's actually a counter-fire starter.
They should gather the rain in Spain BEFORE it falls mainly on the plain.
Repeat after me: climate change is a liberal myth, climate change is a liberal myth, climate change...
Yup, because wild fires did not exist before "global warming."
I believe humans contribute a significant amount to climatic conditions taking place in the present and decades past, but a wildfire is the last place you need to bring up this crap.
Some dumbass throwing a cigarette into the brush can cause one.
Between extremely high unemployment and now terrible fires it is all very trying for the people of Spain. A beautiful country with very nice people.
Be safe & good luck with fires
I love Spain. Amazing nightlife and some of the friendliest people in the world. Would go back in a heartbeat if I could.
Best of luck with the fires.