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An Englishman whose wife and 12 friends and neighbors are feared dead in Spain wildfires has told how he was separated from them as the flames raced towards his home.
70-year-old Malcolm Timrell and his wife Annette Kilgore, 69, lived in the village of Bedar in Almeria province, where 13 people were killed in a fire last Thursday evening.
The injured man spoke to the BBC outside his mountain-top home.
“You never thought this could happen,” he said. “And when it happens and you’re the only survivor, then you’re like, ‘What can I do?’ They will remain in that state.”
He and Annette discovered their property when they appeared on the Channel 4 program The Sunspot.
“She was very happy and outgoing,” Malcolm said of his partner of 17 years. “We’ve had an amazing life together – and now it’s stopped.”
Thursday’s wildfires are among the deadliest in Spain’s history. It spread quickly, tearing through Bedar, leaving Malcolm, Annette and their friends to make a snap decision to flee.
As the fire – aided by strong winds – approached their property on Thursday, the couple and their neighbors decided to escape by car.
