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Spain’s forest fire brigades on strike amid wildfire season

Saturday, 22 August 2015 1:10 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 22 August 2015 1:10 AM ]

In Spain, more than 65-hundred forest fires have been recorded since January.

Daniela Sepulveda
Press TV, Madrid

In Spain, more than 65-hundred forest fires have been recorded since January. Most of them have occurred this summer as a heat-wave swept across Europe. As fires are at their worst, Spanish forest brigade workers have gone on strike to protest their poor working conditions. But as our Madrid correspondent Daniela Sepulveda reports, the government has not yet offered a solution.

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