A member of a firefighting brigade. he died on Sunday when it was caught in the flames, in a forest fire that broke out in the afternoon in the municipality of Losaico, in the Spanish province of Zamora, according to a source from the Civil Guard.
Spain. Road closures and evacuation of towns due to fires
The source, quoted by the EFE news agency, added that the The accident occurred when the forest worker was fighting the Losaico fire together with othersdeclared a level two on an ascending danger scale from zero to three, the group having been caught in the fire.
You other elements managed to escape from the scenebut the one who died was found surrounded by flameseventually dying, he added.
The fire forced evacuation of three villages along the Sierra de la Culebra, where another fire is still active, after having They burned more than 25,000 hectares in the last 32 days.
The Junta de Castilla y León declared this Monday official mourning in the autonomous community.
Source: Observadora
