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The fire in Soneja (Castellón) forces 500 people to evacuate from the neighboring town of Azuébar

A forest fire declared at noon this Sunday in the municipality of Soneja, in the interior of Castelló, has forced the evacuation of 500 people from the neighboring town of Azuébar, as reported by the councilor Valencian Emergency and Interior Minister, Juan Carlos Valderrama. A dozen aerial means and fifty members of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) with a total of 17 vehicles have been mobilized for the extinction work. Valderrama has assured that the fire has not entered the nearby Sierra de Espadán natural park.Continue reading

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Four people from a family die and a minor is in very serious condition after a traffic accident in Palencia

Four people from the same family, including two children aged 17 and 14, died this Sunday afternoon after a traffic accident on the A-67 highway near Herrera de Pisuerga (Palencia) and there is a minor, nine years old, seriously injured. The adults were 48 and 45 years old. The car in which they were traveling towards Valladolid, where they came from, left the road and caused the accident, spinning several times, caused according to the first hypotheses by the driver’s drowsiness. The Government subdelegation in Palencia has reported the details of the event, which occurred on a day of intense…

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A jury judges a young man who ran over while drunk and did not help a cyclist who died

On the morning of October 30, 2021, a cyclist was hit by a car driven by a drunk young man on the GIV-6703 road that goes up to the Sanctuary of Angels, near Girona. The impact was of such magnitude that, after hitting the windshield and shattering it, the woman was thrown, over the road fence and left lying on an embankment, while the bicycle was left hanging from the branches of a tree. The driver, DCV, who was accompanied by a friend, did not stop to help the woman, who ended up dying at the Josep Trueta Hospital. This…

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Sustainability, xenophobia and hospitality

The Generalitat Valenciana recently launched the “tourism that sustains” campaign. The axis, as can be intuited, is the well-worn sustainabilitya hollow word today after its systemic emptying of meaning for decades. It was already used as a tourist slogan in 2024, when the Mazón government proclaimed that “our attitude makes us sustainable”… while foaming at the mouth at the mere mention of the tourist tax. Continue reading

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The Tour de France time trial is already rolling through Barcelona: “They go like bullets”

Public with a mosaic of neighbors, gossips, pedal freaks and tourists. Barcelona is this Saturday the world capital of cycling. The Tour de France has started in the city with a team time trial and tremendous heat. A seen and not seen, the passage of the cyclists, which for once many have not seen on TV on the couch at home, but live and next to their home. The route, almost twenty kilometers long, is a showcase of the city, and passes through points that Barcelona likes to boast about: the beaches, the Eixample grid, the Sagrada Familia, or Casa…

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The Les Gavarres fire reaches houses in an urbanization in Calonge, on the Costa Brava

The fire that broke out this Friday in La Bisbal d’Empordà, in Girona, and that burns the protected natural area of ​​Les Gavarres, has already reached houses in an urbanization, Cabanyes de Calonge, where one has burned and another 12 have affected gardens and fences, report the firefighters and the City Council. A farmhouse has also burned. The night has been very nervous in a fire whipped by the wind of Tramuntana first and then Marinada, in which 400 firefighters are working, all those available on duty and also 100 from the Military Unit of the Army (UME) and which…

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