Hundreds battle new mega-wildfire in Spain

More than 600 Spanish firefighters and troops on Tuesday battled for the sixth day a huge wildfire north of Madrid.

Over 1,200 people have fled their homes and the flames have devastated 29,000 hectares of land in Guadalajara province. Firefighters said they had practically stopped the advance of the fire toward the town of Soria but that the inferno was still not under control due to the severe drought. The fire started on July 16 in an isolated forest and has since spread quickly across neighboring hills.