Fire near Seghers in Estepona

ESTEPONA Our good Antonio J. Sierra (who used to be the tech behind Alberto's English-speaking radio programme in Jimena years ago) was evacuated from his home in the Seghers section of Estepona because of a fire nearby yesterday. As he said, "This is the first time ever I've been evacuated." Being the good journalist that he is, he wrote about it extensively (in Spanish, natch, and sent it to TioJimeno, from whence here) and took the photo above. Oh, and he ended his report sometime in the evening with, "The bomberos are refreshing the area at this time."

Spanish photojournalist missing in Libya

'Manu Brabo' - EFE

LIBYA (El Pais) A Spanish news photographer who traveled to Libya to cover the civil war has been missing since Monday along with three other photojournalists, one of his colleagues confirmed on Thursday.

Manuel Brabo, 33, a native of Gijón, went to Libya to work as a freelancer about a month ago, his friend, the photographer Manuel Varela de Sijas Bravo, told Efe news agency. Brabo was sending pictures of the Libyan conflict for the European photo agency Epa, which was distributing his photographs throughout Europe and the Americas. According to the security advisor to The New York Times, who was interviewed by a La Vanguardia reporter, the four journalists were detained on Tuesday when Gaddafi's forces launched an offensive on a highway between Brega and Ajdabiya.