More than 700 people were evacuated from homes, campsites and hotels due to the threat from a forest fire in southern Spain, emergency services said on Sunday. Like much of Spain, the area near Huelva is on high alert for forest fires because of a heat wave. The blaze in southern Spain was detected on Saturday night in the Moguer area near Huelva and is being treated as a level 1 - or maximum threat - by emergency services. By 11 a.m. (0900 GMT) on Sunday emergency services had deployed 11 planes, 10 helicopters and dozens of land vehicles against the flames in a joint military-civilian operation. Around 750 people were in local rescue centres, according to the emergency services.

Source: dna June 25, 2017 09:33 UTC