12 Sep, 2020 @ 19:23
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BREAKING: Forest fire in Andalucian village of Frigiliana

Frigiliana Fire

FIREFIGHTERS are tackling a blaze just outside the mountain village of Frigiliana in Spain’s Andalucia.

Two helicopters, and a total of 25 firefighters are on the scene.

Frigiliana Fire
Fire near Frigiliana Credit: Infoca

Latest information from the Infoca forestry fire service at 7pm on Saturday (September 12) is that the flames are being brought under control, although the fire has not been ‘stabilised’ yet.

There are also unconfirmed reports of a second fire in the nearby village of Algarrobo.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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