BRAÑUELAS, SPAIN (AFP) – Garbed in red protective overalls, the soldiers worked doggedly to create a firebreak during a firefighting exercise in northwestern Spain, the European nation hardest hit last year by wildfires. In a forested area of Castilla y Leon, a sprawling region northwest of Madrid that is prone to blazes, troops from the […]
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