Spain battles wildfires as heatwave eases
Madrid (AFP) June 19, 2022
Emergency services battled several wildfires Sunday in northern Spain as an unseasonable heatwave that gripped the country for the past week finally eased. The most alarming blaze in the northwestern Sierra de Culebra mountain range has already destroyed over 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres), the regional government said. It started on Wednesday during a dry thunderstorm but firefighters s
