Almost 140 people were evacuated in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region after a large forest fire spread across the equivalent of 600 soccer fields within a day, authorities said Saturday.
Local people were moved from several villages overnight as a precaution, along with a campsite not far from Portbou, whose railway station connects Spain with France on the Mediterranean coast.
An estimated 4,000 people lost power as a result of the blaze, the Catalan Civil Defence said.
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