{"id":144174,"date":"2021-09-14T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144174"},"modified":"2021-09-14T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:03:04","slug":"rainfall-helps-firefighters-control-southern-spains-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144174","title":{"rendered":"Rainfall helps firefighters control southern Spain&#8217;s inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.klfy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/09\/120b043def754ce98f87d267704d7e63.jpg?w=2560&amp;h=1440&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>A seaplane flies over a wildfire near the town of Jubrique, in Malaga province, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MADRID, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;  Authorities in southern Spain say that rain has helped to bring under control a major\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/world\/wildfire-raging-spain-forces-more-900-flee-firefighter-dies-2166581\">wildfire<\/a>\u00a0that ravaged 7,800 hectares of land despite more than five days of intense firefighting work by land and air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juan Manuel Moreno, the president of the Andalusia region, said in a Tweet early on Tuesday that \u201cthe rain that has been falling for some hours has been the best ally of the intense and admirable work of the crews\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he said that the blaze in Sierra Bermeja, a mountain range close to the tourist-magnet Costa del Sol, is not over and that work to completely extinguish the flames is complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say they have reasons to believe arson is behind the fire, which started in various hotspots late on Wednesday in an area that environmentalists say harboured a unique ecosystem. Spain&#8217;s prosecutor\u2019s office has launched an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virulence of the fire, fanned by high temperatures and strong winds, surprised authorities, with a veteran forestry technician describing it as a \u201chungry monster\u201d that reacted despite hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and dozens of air-dropping aircraft deployed to the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 44-year-old firefighter died on Thursday while trying to extinguish the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 2,600 residents have been evacuated, but most of them had returned to their homes by Tuesday morning, said the regional fire extinguishing service, Plan Infoca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts with the agency have said that the Sierra Bermeja wildfire will set a precedent as the first mega-fire that Spain suffers as a result of a warming planet and the progressive abandonment of rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official data show that wildfires are getting bigger in Spain. In the first eight months of 2021, they consumed more forest land &#8211;\u00a075,000 hectares\u00a0than the average during the past decade. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Authorities in southern Spain say that rain has helped to bring under control a major\u00a0wildfire\u00a0that ravaged 7,800 hectares of land despite more than five days of intense firefighting work by land and air. Juan Manuel Moreno, the president of the Andalusia region, said in a Tweet early on Tuesday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":144178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}