Bermeo's burning: Four streets evacuated and 35 homes destroyed in catastrophic inferno
Monday, April 15, 2013 @ 1:34 PM
AN inferno which wiped out nearly an entire village has left 35 families homeless in the Basque Country.
The blaze started at around 03.45hrs on Thursday morning in an abandoned house in Bermeo (Vizcaya) and quickly spread to at least eight other homes, destroying them completely.
Three of these crumbled to the ground and are now no more than piles of rubble, and at least another two are so badly structurally damaged that they will probably need to be demolished and rebuilt.
High winds caused the flames to propagate until two entire streets were on fire.
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