Laurence Dollimore
A FOREST fire has been declared in the Malaga town of Alhaurin el Grande.
According to Andalucia’s firefighting service INFOCA, a ‘heavy duty’ helicopter has been roped in to drop water from above.
In its latest update, the service said the extinction of the fire was ‘evolving favourably’.
There are at least two forest fire ground units battling the inferno.
The flames were first reported at around 1.30pm.
Video footage shared online shows a thick plume of black smoke billowing into the air.
this was NOT a forest fire. the culprit is a notorious local campiñuela nuisance who pollutes the area with toxic smoke from his wretched olive wood fires (there are several nuisances in the same area). i saw it start as yet another of his outrageous fires, and then get out of control. looks as if he burned his house down, which is a good start. we have no idea why the local spanish smarty-pants (‘unity’, ‘solidarity’, ‘society’, ’emphysema’, etc) do not maintain a police force to deal with wood fires and the psycho idiots who light them. we presume local officials are bribed.