Carlos Uriagereka, forest guard of Bizkaia: "We have had the opportunity to save a village threatened by fire"
There have been numerous professional Biscayans in the Leonese town of Casasuertes who have been helping to put out the fires that have burned the northwest of the peninsula since Monday in Castilla y León. Carlos Uriagereka, head of the Forestry Service of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, has stated that it has been hard, but they have been happy to return to the Basque Country because they have managed to control the fire by making firewalls.
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There will be news of the start of the Jazz Festival, the yellow warning for high temperatures and the 90th anniversary of the bombing of Otxandio
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The 61 Otxandians killed in the Franco bombing will be remembered today on the 90th anniversary of the massacre
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Painted against Basque footballer Einar Galilea appeared in Malaga after spreading his image with the Argentine T-shirt
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Farewell to smoking on terraces and beaches: this is the new anti-smoking law, which equates the vaporizer with the cigarette
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Two monitors have been arrested in Biarritz on charges of raping and sexually assaulting children aged three and four
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