Firefighters on Saturday tamed a wildfire that had threatened villages outside the up market beach resort of Marbella on southern Spain's Costa del Sol, allowing about 4,000 evacuees to start returning to their homes and hotels. The fire killed a 78-year-old British man, and a couple in their fifties were treated for serious burns, according to a report of Reuters. More than 400 firefighters and members of the military fought the flames overnight, using eight helicopters and airplanes to help drench the flames after they came close to several small towns. The threatened villages included Ojen, a village of white buildings perched on a mountainside where most of the evacuees came from. Officials reopened the highway between Marbella and Ojen on Saturday morning and were allowing evacuees to return, said a spokeswoman for the government of the Andaluc?a region.
