Andalucia Region - Wildfire Under Control Near Spain's Marbella Reuters

Sat Sep 1, 2012 9:09am EDT

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MADRID, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Firefighters tamed a wildfire with Saturday this acquired endangered towns north with the upmarket shore place of Marbella in Spain's southern Costa delete Sol, making it possible for related to 4,000 people today who seem to had happen to be evacuated to come back to their houses and hotels.

Emergency officials claimed a single person appeared to be wiped out from the fire but his age group and nationality could not often be confirmed. He had formerly already been defined as a British citizen.

More in comparison with 400 firefighters in addition to customers with the armed forces fought against the particular fire overnight, applying tendencies helicopters as well as aeroplanes to help you drench the fire flames after they contacted cities and villages north on the coast.

Officials reported it was the actual most severe fire inside memory within this seacoast land of Malaga, component to your Andalucia region .

Places endangered because of the flames involved Ojen, a new hamlet of white-colored properties perched about a mountainside where almost all evacuees lived.

Officials reopened your highway beteween Marbella plus Ojen with Saturday morning hours as well as were letting evacuees to come back therefore to their homes, a spokeswoman with the Andalucia regional authorities said.

The spice pennyless away with Thursday nighttime in the hills preceding this traveler mecca connected with Marbella in addition to raced southern as well as west through hilly, tinder-dry countryside, fanned by way of strong winds as well as huge temperatures.

Every year numerous holidaymakers visit the particular Costa del Sol, famed because of its beaches along with nightlife. Hundreds of countless expatriates from northern Europe dwell on the coastal belt.

Unusually dry weather around Spain includes resulted in wildfires using up countless hectares involving terrain this particular summer, plus temp possess reach history highs in most regions.

Thousands of folks were being evacuated on account of wildfires earlier this month inside Canary Islands, as well as several people today passed away around that will fire with this border region between France along with Catalonia, in northeast Spain, within July. (Reporting by simply Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Tim Pearce)