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Weather helps control Canary Island blaze

Labor unions and the leading opposition Socialist party also have complained about cutbacks in firefighting efforts in other regions such as northeastern Catalonia, central Castilla y Leon and northwestern Galicia, all of which have been badly affected by blazes.

Three firefighters and three civilians — including two French tourists — have died in recent wildfires.

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