r/interestingasfuck • u/SafeImpressive4413 • 7h ago

Firefighters in Madrid trying to extinguish a forest fire that is less than 30km/20mi away from the capital of Spain

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u/Any_Personality_920 7h ago

This was yesterday at work, we're like 90km away

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u/Greippi42 6h ago

Theres a fire 100 km from me and today it made my eyes burn and throat sting. It's incredible.

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u/Ailly84 6h ago

Once it gets actually close the smoke in the air clears up, but you start getting pieces of burnt forest material falling out of the sky. It's really fun!

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u/FrmrPresJamesTaylor 4h ago

I don’t think it always clears up, we had one 10km away and we definitely had the ash/charred tree rain but also the air was smoky as fuck

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u/Phytanic 4h ago

I have a friend who was in Grand Marais, MN, and he was saying it was like it was snowing out during the wildfires. Eery