fire raging at the moment

i can see a very large fire from my house in the campo in coin,does anyone know anything aboout it

 http://www.facebook.com/groups/192438050818453/

i am in the coin campo and can see it raging from here,it looks like armaggedon,maybe we could get together on this site and help the people caught up in it,wind is changing direction so god knows where its going next

News is hard to come by, the wind is gusting and changing direction

But this fire is in a arc from Marbella to Alhaurin 

The top of Calahonda has been evacuated

The roads from Fuengirola inland to Alhaurin, Coin and Mijas have been closed

I've heard from a Facebook source that the military have been called in.

From my home it's a truely frightning sight.

look at mijascomunicacion.org,they have coverage of it

This is the most updated info I can find

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_35637.shtml

Its still not out and we have around six fire planes working

News is now on the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19433715

So sad to see this happening. I spent a lot of this year in the region, especially around Barranco Blanco, Coin, monda and all along the coast between Benalmadena and Estepona. I hope it is contained quickly for the sake of the wildlife and the tourism on which Spain depends.

I've never seen anything like this.  This has to be the worse summer in history for fires across Spain.

My understanding is that it started yesterday evening but they couldn't get the planes and helicopters in action to drop water on the fires until daylight this morning.  The high winds have made the whole thing considerably worse too.

Very scary scenes, the entire village of Ojen as been evacuated and they are still trying to control the fire around there.  This is massive.

There is an updated page on Diario Sur which you can follow.  I saw this video on there too...very scary

 Absolutely devastating!  Drove through there on the AP7 this morning on way to Benalmadena and it was frightening!  So sad.  Stretched from just past La Cañada, Marbella to Calahonda toll.  Don't know about you Justin, but we had ash all over our place this morning and just came back (after leaving terrace door open) to find ash in house!  And we are, I believe, about 50kms from nearest point of fire!

We have spent the whole day cleaning up, ash everywhere. The fire got to within 2kms of our place.

The BBC are showing footage of Calahonda on the main news bulletins (well they did at 17-00)

Yeah, the smell of smoke and the amount of ash was a surprise considering how far away we are.  But just shows what a monster fire it was and the strength of the (unhelpful) wind.

The BBC were saying that it's mostly under control now, I hope that's true.

This is the group who are co-ordinating volunteers and donations for people who have evacuated or lost their homes:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/312338028864557/

This happened a few years ago and it was FRIGHTENING standing on our terrace looking towards ELVIRIA and the whole hill was on fire, I just hope that the BRAVE firefighters can bring this to an END and that no LOSS of precious HUMAN LIFE results

I understand it has been a LONG HOT summer which has contributed to the SITUATION hopefully the WIND will keep it away from the HEAVILY POPULATED areas on the COAST

Rod

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN5HN7TjgoQ