VILLAMANTA, Spain - Ordered to flee their homes as wildfires raged nearby, Spanish villagers often only had minutes to seize what they could: most pets were banned and some had no chance to grab their medicine.
"Everyone had to get out of the village quickly -- it was a critical situation and people were scared," Olga Congacha, 50, told AFP on a highway where police had closed off access to her home commune, Robledo de Chavela.
