Spain wildfires: 12,000 hectares burn north of Madrid, hundreds evacuated as second fire rages near Zaragoza · Pollar

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Spain lifts the trophy and fights the fires

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The past half-day brought several versions of the same problem: governments trying to keep pace with events that moved faster than their machinery. War closed a trade artery, fire emptied villages, disease crossed borders on paper if not yet in patients, and an old ferry vanished into rough water.

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Spain wildfires: 12,000 hectares burn north of Madrid, hundreds evacuated as second fire rages near Zaragoza · Pollar