'I've never experienced anything like this': Spanish man, 86, tried to save house before fleeing

Ecologio Cabrera, 86, was forced to flee his village west of the Spanish capital because of the deadly wildfires. "If you don't run from it and you try to face it, it devours you," he tells AFP news agency in a sports hall in the village of Vilamanta, where hundreds of evacuees have sought refuge. Cabrera recalls firefighters racing through his neighbourhood in Aldea del Fresno where he has lived for nearly three decades, ordering everyone to leave immediately. The family fought to sa