Malaga wildfire forces more than 1,000 people from their homes

A Spanish wildfire fanned by strong winds and high temperatures has driven more than 1,000 people from their homes and killed one emergency worker since erupting on Wednesday.

It comes a month after a similarly devastating conflagration in Portugal burnt at least 9,000 hectares of forests, orchards and bushland.

Two more Andalusian towns were evacuated on Sunday morning as Spain sent in military backup to douse the flames, which continued to rage close to a Costa del Sol resort in the Sierra Bermeja above Estepona, which is favoured by British tourists and retirees.

“We will work in co-ordination and without rest in the face of the fire that is devastating the province of Malaga,” said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Twitter. He announced the deployment of the Military Emergency Unit to help firefighters tackle the blaze.

Andalusia's regional forest fire agency said on Sunday that 365 firefighters, supported by 41 aircraft and 25 vehicles, were currently working to put out the fire.

“Ground firefighters are working intensively in harsh conditions trying to stop the advancing flames,” it said on Twitter, where it shared footage of firefighters trying to control flames raging across dry and hilly terrain.

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