Firefighters bring deadly Spain blaze under control
Yahoo.com:
Spanish firefighters, aided by weaker winds and cooler temperatures, on Tuesday brought under control a huge wildfire which killed four people and charred thousands of hectares.
“The good news is that the wildfire that started in La Junquera was brought under control today,” said Felip Puig, interior minister of the northeastern Catalonia region where the fire broke out Sunday near the French border.
“We are going to continue working still for two or three more days but at the moment the perimetre of the fire has been stabalized,” he told AFP in the town of Figueres.
The fire, which officials believe was likely caused by a discarded cigarette butt, has ravaged over 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres), devouring tall trees and leaving charred earth and flocks of dead sheep in its wake………