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Drought conditions fuel wildfire in northern Spain
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A villager looks at a fire burning close to the village of Castrelo do Val, near Ourense, northwestern Spain, on March 27, 2012. A firefighter was killed fighting one of the wildfires that have devastated thousands of acres due to drought in Galicia, northwestern Spain. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images)MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP - Getty Images
A firemen runs close to a fire burning near the village of Castrelo do Val, in Ourense, northwestern Spain, on March 27, 2012. A firefighter was killed fighting one of the wildfires that have devastated thousands of acres due to drought in Galicia, northwestern Spain. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images)MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP - Getty Images
A villager looks at a fire burning close to the village of Castrelo do Val, near Ourense, northwestern Spain, on March 27, 2012. A firefighter was killed fighting one of the wildfires that have devastated thousands of acres due to drought in Galicia, northwestern Spain. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images)MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP - Getty Images
Associated Press reported on March 15 2012:
The landscape in northern Spain is now a palette in shades of ugly. Pale brown fields without crops or pasture stretch off into the distance. A pond for watering sheep has shriveled into a dustbowl. An irrigation canal down the road holds only stagnant water, murky from so much sediment and so little flow. In Galicia, Spain's lushly green northwestern corner where it usually rains all the time, pastures have no grass this year. Farmers there and elsewhere are being forced to ship in food for sheep and cattle at a cost of $2.6 million a day, according to ASAJA national spokesman Gregorio Juarez.
