Spanish crew’s brush with death in raging Valencia wildfire

MADRID --- A cry of "run, run, run, run" rang out across the hillside as a wall of flame fed by high winds swept down towards four Spanish firefighters, engulfing tinder-dry bracken seconds after they fled for their lives. The wildfire they were battling on Wednesday was in the eastern Valencia region, and the brush with death happened as crews tried to prevent flames from reaching a village in the municipality of Bejis, north of Valencia city. Three firefighters were injured by flames and several villages in the area were evacuated, local emergency services said on Twitter. The same fire injured at least 10 passengers on a train on Tuesday, after several panicked and got of...

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