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What some fire vehicles do in southern Spain in January

Fire vehicle plowing snow near Jaen, Spain
Fire vehicle plowing snow near Jaen, Spain. Photo by Montse Sanchez.
Fire vehicle plowing snow near Jaen, Spain
Fire vehicle plowing snow near Jaen, Spain. Photo courtesy of  Montse Sanchez.

A new follower of @WildfireToday on Twitter, @m_sanchez_ruiz, posted the above photo Friday with this caption:

Vehículos contra incendios adaptados con palas quitanieves del dispositivo INFOCA. Esta semana han intervenido en Jaén.

Google Translate translated it like this:

Fire Vehicles fitted with snow plows INFOCA device. This week intervened in Jaén.

I’m thinking the photo was taken near Jaen in southern Spain. Wikipedia says the elevation there is 573 m (1,880 ft). A little research into “INFOCA”, again with the help of Google Translate, yielded this:

Canario Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Management for Forest Fires

We would like to see other photos of fire vehicles being re-purposed during the off-season.

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