Man in 50s emerges from blaze with clothes burned to rags and flames flickering around him
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A Spanish man in his 50s is being treated for serious burns after escaping the flames that engulfed his excavator as he tried to fight one of the wildfires raging in the north-western region of Castilla y León.
Video of the incident, which took place near the town of Tábara in Zamora province on Monday afternoon, shows the vehicle being swallowed by the fire and disappearing behind drifts of smoke.
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