'Wound healed, scar still remains': deadly wildfire ten years on

<p>It was set to be just another summer wildfire &ndash; and it didn&rsquo;t burn an extraordinary amount of hectares, around 1,000,&nbsp;six times less than the biggest wildfire of 2019 so far. Ten years on, no one would have remembered the July 21, 2009 wildfire in Horta de Sant Joan, southern Catalonia, had five firefighters not lost their lives while fighting it.</p> / ACN

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July 21, 2019 05:29 PM