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 identified as Konstantin Mrykhin, was detained near his Barcelona home on August 31.
The suspect was believed to have fled [...]
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 at least 700 people in the Benirras bay” in the north-west region of the island. They had to [...]
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, in the regions of Muxia and Camarins, were under control Monday, while others in Baiona, Vimianzo and Santa Comba had been extinguished.
The authorities said [...]
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 of Galicia.
The government´s rural affairs department said that the circumstances of the two men´s deaths and the cause of the 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 at the refinery in southeast Spain, which normally processes about 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
“The fire [...]
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 said.
About 1,000 firefighters and soldiers are battling 15 wildfires mainly in northern Portugal, according to the country's civil protection authorities.
The government has the capacity to [...]
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 that there is no imminent danger to the homes, but the National Police ordered the evacuation as a precaution.
The [...]
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 in real style with the Hogueras de San Juan (Bonfires of St. John), a festivity deemed to be of International [...]
