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Eugenio Cabezas
A 20-year-old woman was rescued from a fire in her home in the village of Canillas de Albaida last Sunday. Neighbours noticed flames coming from the first floor of the building where the woman was asleep. The other three homes in the building
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Eugenio cabezas
...attacks, which happened frequently last year and earlier this year, appeared to have stopped, until four containers and three cars were set on fire early last Friday morning. The man was carrying a lighter, which police said was "still hot" when they caught
Sport
Rob Palmer
It's going to be like one of those furniture sales you see around Christmas time: "Billions of pounds' worth of stock must go!" Real Madrid need to ignite a fire sale; not one player can be assured of a locker at the Bernabéu next season. It's
Opinion
ANTONIO ORTÍN
...up because it's difficult not to be perplexed at the succession of 'new trends' that often make you think it might be better if a big ball of fire fell on us, sending us straight to the sixth extinction, leaving just a few left to start again from
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Juan CANO / Álvaro FRÍAS.
A man from the Las Lagunas area of Mijas has been held over allegedly causing a fire at his home that destroyed the property and threatened the life of his partner. The 42-year-old woman had to hide in the bathroom, using the shower to keep wet, and ... buy drugs. A later statement to the Guardia Civil from the woman rescued said that she had gone to the toilet and opened the door afterwards to find the sofa on fire.
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ÁLVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO
...del Sol until, a month later, Malaga experienced its first successful case of narcoterrorism. This was on 10 October, when two devices exploded. The first was in the Mirador de la Alquería urbanisation in Benahavís, when a car caught fire and the ... front of a house was damaged by the explosion. A few minutes later there was a huge fire after another bomb went off on the industrial estate in San Pedro Alcántara, damaging five warehouses and several cars. It turned out that the car wash business
Local
Ivan Gelibter
After years of complaints, Mijas town hall on Monday announced a 7,000-square-metre plot of land in Las Lagunas, next to the Instituto La Vega secondary school, was to be set aside for the town's new fire station. The new station will be located ... next to an old people's home which is already at the tender stage. Mayor Juan Carlos Maldonado said that the new site would see a "significant rise in quality" in the service provided by the fire department and would allow the force to acquire more ... fire engines such as the recently-purchased crane truck which cannot fit in the current fire station. The current 1,000-square-metre hub had been described as "obsolete" and "insufficient" for the force's needs.
Local
Tony Bryant
Torremolinos is hosting the Semana de la Prevención de Incendios, a fire prevention programme designed to help people to identify the risks of a fire in the home, schools and workplaces. The initiative, which is being held in the Torremolinos ... a special emphasis on smoke detectors and evacuation procedures. There will also be a focus on children: the organisers have invited pupils from several schools in Torremolinos to attend workshops and educational programmes about fire prevention. ... The workshops will offer guidelines concerning the awareness of fire hazards and how to avoid them. They will highlight the importance of exercising caution with bad electrical installations and overloaded sockets, which are among the leading causes of
National
SUR
Three people were killed and many left homeless last weekend after a block of 20 flats burned down, it has now been confirmed. Firefighters have said they did all they could with the equipment available to rescue people trapped in the building in t
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A fire broke out at the Hotel Califa II in Torremolinos, left empty since 2013, on Wednesday. Its location, close to residential blocks, made its extinction difficult, with a helicopter required as part of the operation. Roads were shut off and