(18 Jul 2022)
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El Pont de Vilomara area - 18 July 2022
1. Various of firefighter vehicles headed to wildfire
2. Mid of burnt sign
3. Police at roadblock
4. Mid of burnt trees after fire's passage
5. Firefighter truck coming back from fire
6. View of forest and town of El Pont de Vilomara
7. Close of evacuated dogs drinking water
8. Various of evacuated residents on standby near road block
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Montiagudo, 76, has lived in the area since he was five:
"It started there (points) then it was here (point elsewhere), and then behind, everywhere, everything was lit up on all sides, we were surrounded by fire. It was the moment that some air (wind) came in and when you looked it was already burning somewhere else."
10. Firefighters and residents
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Augustin Pop, evacuated resident of Riverpark neighborhood hit by wildfire, and José Montiagudo:
Pop: "This fire didn't last two and a half hours, it was quick, quick. Then it spread over there."
Montiagudo: "It started to burn around 1pm."
Pop: "1:30pm-2pm."
(Reporter: "Very quickly it burnt everything?")
Pop: "There was some fresh air that came and the air helped it like this, in one go."
12. Various of firefighters in their vehicle
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Augustin Pop, evacuated resident of Riverpark neighborhood hit by wildfire:
"This morning I asked them (police) to let me go in to get two dogs. (They replied) 'No, no one is going up. Leave the animals.' Nobody knows how it is. We just watch videos (shared by neighbours)."
(Reporter: "You don't know how your house is doing?")
Pop: "Nothing, nothing."
14. Wide of residents waiting
15. Water plane in the sky
16. Sun rising behind the smoke of wildfire
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of residents evacuated because of a raging wildfire in north-eastern Spain were anxious to return to their homes and assess the damage on Monday.
They said the wildfire began on Sunday afternoon and quickly spread out in several directions, at one point almost surrounding their town, El Pont the Vilomara.
"Everything was lit up on all sides," said 76-year-old José Montiagudo, who has lived in the area for almost all of his life.
Many residents tried in vain to pass roadblocks to check up on their homes and animals left behind.
Authorities deployed dozens of firefighting planes and helicopters to try to contain the spreading flames that ravaged several homes and burnt more than 1,600 hectares (3,953 acres).
More than 30 forest fires around Spain have forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
The fires are fueled by fierce heat - part of a wall of high temperatures moving across Europe.
Forecasters have warned of temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for Monday.
Heat waves and drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight.
Scientists say climate change will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
AP video shot by Renata Brito
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