About 2,000 forest firefighters demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday to call for improved workers rights in a year when wildfires destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of woodland across Europe.
In Spain, unlike full-time firefighters, those tackling wildfires are employed by regional authorities only to tackle major forest fires at the height of the summer.
Protestors used beaters to bang the ground as they demanded a "firefighters statute" to guarantee workplace rights to recognise injuries suffered while doing the job as occupational hazards.
