Tarifa fire takes 36 hours to put out
Monday, August 31, 2015 @ 8:08 PM
A HUGE forest fire which broke out in the early hours of Saturday morning has finally been put out today (Sunday) after wiping out 15 hectares of land.
The blaze flared up at around 05.15hrs in the Las Tablas area of Tarifa (Cádiz province) and took emergency services until 18.35hrs on Saturday to bring it under control.
It was spreading perilously close to the main N-340 inter-provincial highway between kilometres 85 and 87, firefighters revealed.
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