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Moments of tension were experienced this Monday on a train from Spain that stopped walking in the middle of the run after being surrounded by one of the many forest fires that have hit the country since the start of the heat wave.
It happened during the morning on the Francisco Seoane railway, which connects the Spanish capital to the city of Ferrol. It was at the height of Zamora, the province located northwest of Madrid, where this it stopped unexpectedly.
It is one of the municipalities most affected by the fire: Two people have died from this in the last few days and the outbreaks are still not under control.
Passengers inside the train in Spain
In this sense, the despair of the passengers who had been surrounded by the fire was total. Y panic was registered in a video that went viral on social media.
In it you can see how close 12 people start to worry to stop the workout in the middle of the flamesthat have been seen on both sides of the tracks, consuming the landscape and multiplying throughout the countryside.
Due to the fear generated by the situation – which lasted a few minutes – the train users began to get up, the acgo around the car and ask for explanations about what was going on.
“What are you doing?”, in the video you can hear an English tourist screaming, desperate for a context. Later, many claimed this you could smell the smoke inside the railway, causing concern.
According to sources assured to the AP news agency, there were no announcements for passengers through the Public communication system. Likewise, witnesses assured that they were unable to explain the reasons for the arrest.
A short time later, the train left and continued its journey to the destination city.
This was told by a Spaniard on the train the terror of the passengers it was due to the speed with which the flames spread.
“It was scary (to see) how fire reproduced itself. In an instant, a new place would start burning. It was a matter of secondsthe man told The Associated Press.
And he added: “Suddenly it got dark. Inside (the car) you could smell the smoke, ” she said.
Forest fires in Spain
The spread of flames in various cities in Spain has been a major concern of local authorities for weeks.
In the middle of the high temperature in the height of summer, more than 30 forest fires across the country forced thousands of people from their homes and they burned about 22,000 hectares during the last few days.
The situation for the next few days is not encouraging: in Spain they have already played the 43rd while in Portugal it was Thursday to 47and in the northern area around 40 are expected at the beginning of the week.
A worrying fact given that they do not collaborate in the cessation of sources of fire and means that “what can be extinguished at night, rekindles in the morning”.
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Source: Clarin
