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'Really frightening, unbelievably quick': Witnesses describe fleeing deadly Spain wildfire
At least 12 people have died and 23 others are missing in a wildfire in southern Spain that emergency workers were battling to contain on Friday.
Officials said it appeared flames spread in the Los Gallardos area of Almería on Thursday afternoon after an electricity pole fell in woodland and sparked a blaze.
Speaking to local media, several eyewitnesses described the devastation as "like a bomb has fallen" on the municipality, while others recounted the fire's "unbelievably quick" spread.
Lucinda Curtois arrived in Spain with her partner Riyaz Cheytan and their teenage children for a holiday on Thursday.
They were in the pool in Bédar, close to where the fire took hold, at about 19:00 local time when neighbours warned them of an evacuation notice.
‘I had an incredible escape’: British woman tells of close encounter with Spanish wildfire
Jeanne Henny, 74, put her friend, a wheelchair and two dogs into the car and drove away, only to meet fire surging on to the road
The speed, scale and ferocity of the wildfire in and around the Bédar municipality of AlmerÃa took everyone by surprise.
Jeanne Henny, an English woman who has had a house in the tiny hamlet of Los Pinos for 33 years, initially took Thursday afternoonâs yellow skies as proof that a calima wind from the Sahara was showering desert dust on the area. Then she noticed the smoke and saw from a fire-alert app that a blaze had broken out.
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