“The Beams Were Burning, I Took Milk, Water, Vinegar, Beer, Wine, Whatever I Caught”

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When Juan Cremades (Almería, 57 years old) was driving home from work, a house scattered in the municipality of Bédar in Almeria, and first glimpsed the column of smoke rising over the horizon, he calculated that the danger was far from his property. Upon arriving, he found that the flames came from the ridge of a mountain to the west, and within minutes he saw how his residence was surrounded by the deadliest fire in Andalusia. “I grabbed my do…