Spain taming fire that belched smoke cloud over Madrid

Spanish firefighters on Friday were bringing under control a forest fire near Madrid that had cloaked the capital in a huge cloud of acrid smoke. The blaze that broke out on Thursday around 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of the city had burned 3,100 hectares (7,660 acres), the Madrid region's leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso wrote on X. More than 100 firefighters and the Spanish army's emergencies unit were deployed on the ground and in the air to extinguish the flames.

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