Spain’s deadly wildfires ignite political blame game

MADRID: As helicopters dump water over burning ridges and smoke billows across the mountains of northern Spain, residents from wildfire-stricken areas say they feel abandoned by the politicians meant to protect them. A blaze “swept through those mountains, across those fresh, green valleys, and they didn’t stop it?” said Jose Fernandez, 85. He was speaking from an emergency shelter in Benavente, where he took refuge after fleeing his nearby village, Vigo de Sanabria.

Raccontata daarabnews.com