00:02Biological samples from victims of the deadly Almeria wildfire were flown to Madrid on Friday for DNA analysis, to help
00:10identify the dead.
00:11Authorities said the tests would also determine the victims' nationalities, as officials have yet to formally identify everyone killed.
00:19At least 12 people died while trying to escape the blaze, and another 23 remain missing, making it one of
00:26Spain's deadliest wildfires on record.
00:29Displaced residents, meanwhile, sought shelter at a municipal funeral home in Lubrin, after evacuation orders were issued across parts of
00:37Almeria province.
00:38My house burned on the four sides, in Bedar, and I couldn't do anything.
00:46I saw how it burned, and I tried to take a tank, taking a lot of water pressure in that
00:53area, because it's much lower than Bedar.
01:00And I said, well, maybe you'll do something.
01:03The only thing I got was to burn myself.
01:07And burn myself.
01:09We ended up working, I came home, I knew there was a fire, but we didn't know the information.
01:14And I got to tell my wife, who had also finished working, I came home and we could get out
01:20of the dogs,
01:21which is what the most important is.
01:23And, well, I came home and I came home and I had a little more.
01:26Investigators believe the victims ignored evacuation orders and tried to escape by car,
01:32with four bodies found inside a single vehicle.
01:35Authorities also believe most of those killed were foreign residents, including British and Belgian nationals.
01:51And, well, I came home and I loved my family.
01:52That's what I knew, the whole family was not going to be dead and dead.
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