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Article: A European Sahara? The great desert has leaped over the Med. Is climate change to blame--or man and his works?
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- Newsweek International
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- August 8, 2005
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Byline: Eric Pape (With Mike Elkin in Santander and Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan)
It looked and felt like hell. Swirling winds whipped flames along a 17-kilometer front of pine-forest scrub parched by the fiercest drought on the Iberian Peninsula in 60 years. A dozen firefighters, dwarfed by the massive blaze, fought the flames amid smoke, heat and the blackening countryside of Guadalajara, Spain. Before they could turn to flee, the fire swept over them. Eleven men and women died; the twelfth barely survived. The mid-July blaze was the most spectacular and deadly of the summer--so far. "The hurricane of fire was very big. I didn't think it was fire," Jesus Abad told ...