24 Jul, 2024 @ 12:40
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Forest fire is stabilised on Spain’s Costa del Sol: Firefighters in Casares worked through the night in ‘difficult’ terrain

A FOREST fire in Casares has finally been stabilised after firefighters and aircraft worked through the night.

The Andalucian fire service INFOCA first decalared the blaze in Casares at 5.05pm on Tuesday. But in an update at 12pm today, it said the inferno had been brought under the control.

It said more than 120 firefighters had worked to control the flames in the Sierra Crestallina.

Ground forces were being aided by at least 14 aircraft dropping water from above.

Photos shared after 9pm last night showed smoke continuing to billow into the sky with INFOCA reporting the inferno was still very much ‘active’.

INFOCA sources previously told Malaga Hoy that ‘it is a nasty fire’ in a ‘complicated area with slopes’.

They added that the flames had ‘a lot of fuel ahead of them’, referencing the abundant trees and bushes in the area.

It was the second such fire in 24 hours following a similar inferno in Nagueles, Marbella on Monday.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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