Arson blamed for fire at iconic Barcelona church
About 1,500 tourists were evacuated Tuesday from the Sagrada Familia church, a popular destination for visitors to Barcelona, Spain, after a man set a fire inside, authorities said. The fire occurred More...
The Crown of Fire / La Corona de Fuego (Short Stories for Studying Spanish)
This is a dual language short story: the fourth in a series of traditional short stories from Spain, published in both Spanish and English on the same page, designed to provide the student studying either language More...
Wildfires prompt evacuations in eastern Spain
More than 600 people were Tuesday combating three wildfires which forced the evacuation of eight areas in eastern Spain, officials said. Most of the evacuations were in Valencia province. They were taken as a precaution, More...
Spain arrests man suspected of causing 2009 Russian nightclub fire
Spanish police have arrested a Russian man suspected of causing a fire that killed more than 150 people in a packed nightclub in the Russian city of Perm last December, police said today. The businessman, who was More...
Hundreds flee beach blaze in Ibiza
At least 700 people were evacuated from a beach on Spain's trendy holiday island of Ibiza on Sunday after a fire burnt 20 hectares of land, but no one was hurt, a television report said. The blaze “trapped More...
Forest fires ravage northwest Spain
Spanish firefighters today battled forest fires in the northwestern Galicia region which have already caused the death of two firemen and destroyed some 750 hectares, local authorities said. They said two blazes, More...
Two firemen killed in Spanish blaze
Two firefighters have been killed in a forest fire in the north-west of Spain, officials said. The blaze broke out on Thursday night near Fornelos de Montes in Pontevedra province, according to the regional government More...
Two dead, two hurt in Spain refinery fire
Two people died and another was injured in a fire on Wednesday at the Huelva refinery in Spain run by oil firm Cepsa, a company official said. The official was unable to say whether production had been affected More...
Spain helps Portugal fight raging wildfires
Spain is sending aircraft to Portugal to help the country fight a series of raging wildfires, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Tuesday. “We are sending them planes right now,” Rubalcaba More...
Forest fires near Marbella
Around 200 people have been ordered to leave their homes in Estepona, near Marbella, following a forest fire which broke out on Tuesday evening. The town Mayor, David Valadez, has told the EFE news agency More...
Alicante’s burning with the Hogueras de San Juan 2010
In the Region of Valencia, the summer solstice is celebrated around fire, close to the Mediterranean and of course, in Alicante. In the capital of the Costa Blanca coastline, they are welcoming the summer season More...
Mallorca Hotel Fire
A total of 373 tourists were evacuated last night from the “Tropical” hotel in Playa de Palma in Mallorca because of a fire. No-one has been seriously injured, but five guests were treated by the emergency More...
EMERGENCY LANDING FOR NORWEGIAN AIRLINER IN ALICANTE
A Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 737-800, flying from Alicante,SP (Spain) to Stockholm (Sweden) with 106 passengers, had just reached FL300 climbing out of Alicante, when the crew received a fire indication in one More...
Two children die in apartment fire in Spain
Two boys of Chinese origin, aged three and five, have died in an apartment fire in Zaragoza in eastern Spain, Spanish media reported. The children´s grandmother and father were injured in the blaze while their More...
6 Dead in retirement home fire
Six people were killed and 10 injured, including one seriously, when a fire broke out at a retirement home in Spain’s southern city of Seville. The fire broke out around midnight on Monday in a third-storey More...
Fire in Spanish railway tunnel: 5 injured
At least five workers were injured Tuesday when the railway tunnel they were building caught fire near Oviedo in northern Spain, emergency services said. The 2.5-kilometre tunnel is to form part of a high-speed More...
Barcelona city hall says fire in apartment building killed 4
Four people died while trying to escape a blazing apartment building in Spain´s second-largest city, Barcelona, officials said Thursday. Ricard Goma, acting mayor of the northeastern port city, said a woman of More...
Gas explosion on Mallorca
Four people have were killed on Sunday night by a building collapse in Palma de Mallorca. The three story building on the corner of Calle Rodríguez Arias and Calle Alós, came down after midnight on Sunday night, More...
Man detained for spraying wife with alcohol and threatening to set her on fire
Agents of the National Police arrested a 53 year old man in Elche (Alicante) on Monday, after he allegedly sprayed his wife with alcohol, in front of their two children, and then threatening to set her on fire, More...
Forest fire caused by burning of love letters
For 22-year-old Cristian Garcia the split with his girlfriend was devastating. Her love letters to him were proof of a passion that had since died, so he took them to a skip near her home in Valencia, set them on More...
