Two people were injured, trying to put out a fire on vega farmland between Motril and Salobreña this afternoon.
The fire was phoned in to 112 around 14.15h; the first of around 40 calls.
The emergency call centre despatch both the Almuñécar and Motril fire services, as well as alerting the forest-fire service, informs.
Also sent in were the Local Police, the National Police and personnel from the Agrupación de Voluntarios de Protección Civil de Motril.
The fire was near the N-340 main road and affected vegetation on uncultivated land and threatened two cortijos, according to a spokesperson for one of the fire services at the scene.
Two individuals who tried to help put out the fire suffered burns and were attended to by medical personnel.
(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photos: Paula Rogers & Steve Campen)