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Old 20th Aug 2008, 20:54
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Just seen the photos sky news. There appears to be a blackened area on one photo that appears to have the sooty characteristics of a hydrocarbon fire but the fire the helicopter is trying to put out has white smoke, which isnt normally hydocarbon, so probably vegetation which has ignited. I seem to recall that Spain has had an unusually long dry hot spell recently that would provide the conditions for vegetation fire
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