Tireless efforts by the firefighting teams overnight finally brought the Pujerra wildfire under control this morning

INFOCA, the forrest fire fighting organisation, declared that the blaze had been stabilised at 9am, and that teams were now working on extinguishing the few pockets of fire that were still burning. The fire was also downgraded from Level 2 to Level 0

An improvement in the weather conditions had allowed fire fighting aeroplanes to finally operate, and they were in action late yesterday afternoon.

Residents in Benahavis and other locations were allowed to return to their homes. An estimated 3,500 ha of forrest has been destroyed in the fire

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