Passengers stuck on train in Spain as wildfire rages near tracks

Passengers of a stuck train in Zamora, Spain watched warily as a wildfire tore through vegetation near the tracks on Monday.

The train was travelling between Madrid and Ferrol in the Galicia region but the Zamora wildfire forced it to a halt at around 9:30 a.m., the passenger who shot the video, Francisco Seoane said.

Momentos de pánico en el tren Madrid-Ferrol a la altura de Zamora-Sanabria, 9:30hs. El tren continuó el trayecto tras unos minutos parado. @renfe @adif @lavozdegalicia pic.twitter.com/YXcuBXlIJQ

— Francisco Seoane Pérez (@PacoSeoanePerez) July 18, 2022

With fires burning thousands of hectares in Galicia, Castile and Leon, Catalonia, Extremadura and Andalusia, Spain mourned the death on Sunday evening of a firefighter in the northwestern province of Zamora. Almost the entire country faces an extreme fire risk.

Spain was facing the eighth and last day of a more than week-long heatwave on Monday, which caused more than 510 heat-related deaths, according to estimates from the Carlos III Health Institute. — Reuters