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Fire at Dos Aguas, Valencia, still burning

?Fire at Dos Aguas, Valencia, still burning
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By h.b. - Jun 29, 2012 - 7:10 PM
The number of residents evacuated from their homes is now over 1,000

The number of people evacuated by the Cortes de Pallas fire in Valencia has now risen to 1,000. The town of Dos Aguas had to be evacuated on Thursday, and today other nearby municipalities have also been evacuated. The residents have been taken to Turis or Macastre where facilities are being prepared for them.

The President of the Generalitat regional government, Alberto Fabra, flew over the affected area by helicopter and he said that the thousands of hectares affected presented a ?gruesome and devastating? landscape. He described the fire as ?the largest in recent years?, but declined to put a number on the hectares destroyed. On Friday evening it was estimated that more than 4,000 hectares has been affected.

Fire fighters are seeing the extinction of the blaze being complicated by northerly winds and the high temperatures. They are using 28 fire fighting planes and helicopters, 52 fire trucks and 1,000 people, including 500 from the emergency military and dozens of volunteers, some of whom have travelled other districts and provinces.

Investigations continue into how the blaze started and the latest theory is that negligence in the installation of solar panels could be to blame.

At 6pm on Friday the largest front of the four which remain active was advancing towards Llombai and Catadau.

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