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A video of a resident who was caught in flames while digging with an excavator to prevent the fire from spreading to the village in Spain, plagued by heatwaves and wildfires, but managed to escape is a hot topic.
The tense moment when the foreign press called this resident an ‘excavator hero’ was captured in the video.
Reporter Lee Dong-heon reports.
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A town in Tabara, northwestern Spain, where firefighters and residents have been fighting for days to stop a wildfire.
As the fire approaches the village with strong winds, the residents are harvesting the hard-grown crops in advance and sprinkling water to prevent the fire from spreading to the house.
Meanwhile, a villager drove out an excavator.
This is to prevent the fire from spreading by digging a trench to create a stop line.
But the raging flames quickly engulfed the excavator as it raced across the field, leaving the flames behind.
A few seconds following the excavator disappeared completely into the flames, the villager was caught on camera as he made a desperate escape through the flames.
The man jumped and fell, but got up and ran, with his clothes almost stripped off and his pants still on fire.
This man, whom the foreign press called the ‘excavator hero’, was Angel Martin Arjonaro, who runs a construction material warehouse, and was immediately taken to the hospital with severe burns.
[주안 로짜노 / 아르호나로씨 친구 : 여기 산불은 잡힌 것 같은데 내 친구는 굴삭기가 타고 자신도 다쳐 헬기를 타고 병원으로 갔습니다.]
As the heat wave continues in Europe for several days, wildfires have erupted in France, Spain, and Portugal, displacing more than 30,000 people in France alone.
This is YTN Lee Dong-heon.
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