Wildfire Breaks Out Near Alhaurín Golf

A wildfire erupted successful nan Fuente del Acebuche area of Alhaurín el Grande, adjacent Alhaurín Golf, but was successfully extinguished by a immense firefighting effort, according to nan Andalusian Forest Fire Service (INFOCA) of nan Andalusian Emergency Agency.

The blaze ignited astir 2pm successful this Valle del Guadalhorce municipality, provoking an contiguous consequence from INFOCA-coordinated teams to incorporate nan fire.

The cognition deployed a Super Puma chopper carrying 2 teams of specialised INFOCA firefighters, supported by 3 occurrence engines from nan Coín occurrence station. Two further helicopters collected h2o from a reservoir astatine Mijas Golf to douse nan flames. The fire’s epicentre was astir 70 meters from a section BP work station, wherever nan siren was raised. Scores of Guardia Civil and section constabulary were on-site to negociate postulation and guarantee entree to nan blaze.

3 occurrence engines and ample contingent of occurrence fighters deployed successful nan forest.
Credit: EWN

A section constabulary astatine nan segment serviceman suggested that nan occurrence whitethorn person been sparked by solid from a discarded bottle, arsenic nan area is not typically frequented by hikers during nan day owed to an orangish alert for precocious temperatures.

On nan aforesaid morning, different occurrence collapsed retired successful Casabermeja, inland Malaga province, but INFOCA teams quickly extinguished it. Abundant rainfall earlier successful 2025 has led to important maturation of agelong grass, now barren and highly flammable, feeding accelerated occurrence spread. With specified conditions, INFOCA is apt to stay connected precocious alert passim nan summer.