MADRID, Spain: Hundreds of firefighters on Friday were battling Spain's first major forest fire of the year, which has so far forced 1,500 people to evacuate their homes, officials said.
Despite several days of unusually warm weather, firefighters said the blaze was more typical of the hot summer months than the spring. It began just after midday on Thursday near Villanueva de Viver, some 90 kilometers north of Valencia, and since then has raged out of control. 'We are unfortunately facing the first big fire of the year and it's happening out of season,' Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on a visit to Brussels.
'We are facing a fire that is more typical of summer,' Manolo Nicolas, spokesman for the Castellon firefighters, told RNE public radio. With the vegetation dried out by a lack of moisture in the atmosphere in recent months, and 'large amounts of combustible' biomass in the forests, conditions are 'perfect for such a fire', he said.
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