'This is a warning': Spain looks to rebuild after devastating heatwave

Dozens of wildfires have devoured tens of thousands of hectares of land across the country over the past weekThe flames that blackened the earth, scorched the tree trunks, sooted the dry stone walls, devoured the old Citroën Dyane and left a lingering tang of smoke on the summer breeze have spared the bowl of cherries that sat, untouched, on the kitchen table of a burned-out house.Their survival is not the only recent miracle witnessed in Torre Val de San Pedro. Last Friday, this small village in the north-western Spanish region of Castilla y León was surrounded by blazes as one of the dozens of wildfires that have devoured tens of thousands of hectares of land over the past week tore over the hills from neighbouring Navafría. Continue reading...