2026年7月14日 / 美国东部时间上午9:14 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名身陷西班牙山火的英国男子讲述了自己如何从火海逃生，而他的妻子和朋友们却在试图逃离时遇难的经过。
70岁的马尔科姆·廷布雷尔与69岁的妻子安妮特·基尔戈居住在西班牙东南部阿尔梅里亚省的贝达尔村。
7月9日，该地区遭遇山火肆虐，造成13人死亡，是该国历史上伤亡最惨重的火灾之一。
周一，廷布雷尔在被烧毁的黑色山坡住宅外，向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的合作机构英国广播公司新闻讲述了这场磨难。
“你永远想不到这种事会发生，”他说，“而当它真的发生，而你是唯一的幸存者时，你就会陷入‘我能做什么？’的境地。”
廷布雷尔和基尔戈曾一起航海数年，之后移居西班牙。两人此前都因绝症失去过伴侣，他们相伴走过了17年时光。
他们原本希望在西班牙南部安达卢西亚的山丘上共度余生。
“她是个非常开朗外向的人，”廷布雷尔谈及基尔戈时说，“我们一起度过了精彩的人生——而现在一切都结束了。”
在酷暑、强风和干燥土地的助推下，山火迅速蔓延，过火面积超过曼哈顿，有时以每分钟300多英尺的速度穿过干旱的地表。
2026年7月10日，西班牙安达卢西亚阿尔梅里亚州洛斯加利亚多斯镇，马尔科姆·廷布雷尔和安妮特·基尔戈被烧毁的房屋。 欧罗巴通讯社
随着火势越来越逼近他们的住宅，廷布雷尔、基尔戈和他们的朋友们不得不迅速做出决定，该如何、何时撤离。
他们原本打算开车逃生，但廷布雷尔立刻返回屋内去取夫妇俩的猫咪查理和莉莉。
“如果我们当时做了明智的选择，按原路撤离，任由我们的猫咪死去，我们俩现在都还活着，”他告诉英国广播公司，“但当你养了宠物时，你不会那样想。”
带走查理和莉莉后，廷布雷尔试图回到大部队中，却发现他们不知为何已经下了车。
“我妻子和其他七位朋友邻居——不顾我尖叫着让他们不要这么做——认定穿过火墙步行撤离是唯一安全的方式，”他说，“我后来听说那道火墙的移动速度超过每小时20公里（12英里）。他们根本没有机会。”
廷布雷尔试图躲在一辆废弃的车内逃生。
“六辆汽车里，四辆瞬间起火燃烧，每有一辆车被点燃，我就往后挪一辆车。”
“不知是命运使然，最后两辆车虽然被严重烤焦，漆面起泡开裂，但还是保住了，”他说，“我和一只猫在最后一辆车里活了下来。”
马尔科姆最终被当地救援人员救出，但在夫妇俩的住宅附近的道路上发现了8具遗体。
已确认的遇难者中包括3名英国人——其中一名93岁的女性——以及1名法国人、1名比利时人和1名西班牙人。
西班牙当局表示，在一辆烧毁的汽车中发现的另外4具遗体，据信是英国人。
基尔戈的身份尚未正式确认。
“还有一丝渺茫的希望，”廷布雷尔说，“尽管我知道有一具被发现的遗体紧抱着一只猫。确凿的冰冷事实都指向他们找到的那些尸体。”
“所以我们现在只能等待DNA鉴定结果。在那之后，我可能会彻底崩溃。”
这场西班牙的山火发生之际，欧洲正遭受破纪录的高温侵袭——这日益严峻的气候危机正使欧洲大陆的平均气温上升速度是全球其他地区的两倍左右。
2026年7月10日，安达卢西亚山火服务部门的消防员在阿尔梅里亚省洛斯加利亚多斯区贝达尔附近造成13人死亡的山火区域监控火情。 何塞·乔丹/法新社/盖蒂图片社
西欧刚刚经历了有记录以来最热的六月，造成近1.07万例超额死亡，而意大利已经进入了本季的第三次重大高温天气。
在法国，今年迄今的山火过火面积已经超过了2025年全年。加油机飞机掠过塞纳河取水，试图扑灭巴黎市中心以南约40英里处肆虐的山火。
据当地当局消息，数百名消防员一直在奋力扑救两场山火，这两场山火已在枫丹白露森林烧毁约4900英亩土地，迫使约1000人撤离家园。
尽管法国南部遭遇了更大规模的山火，但枫丹白露的火情相对靠近巴黎周边人口稠密地区。
法国内政部长洛朗·努涅斯周二在法国BFM电视台表示，该区域尚无人员伤亡报告，已有两人因与枫丹白露山火有关被逮捕。
U.K. man describes harrowing escape from Spain wildfire that killed his wife and friends
July 14, 2026 / 9:14 AM EDT / CBS News
A British man caught up in Spanish wildfires has described how he survived the inferno as his wife and friends died trying to escape.
Malcolm Timbrell, 70, lived with his wife Annette Kilgore, 69, in the village of Bedar, in the Almeria province of southeast Spain.
The area was scorched by wildfires on July 9 that killed 13 people, one of the deadliest fires in the country’s history.
Timbrell spoke to CBS News’ partner network BBC News on Monday — outside his blackened, destroyed hillside home — about the ordeal.
“You’d never imagine it could happen,” he said, “and when it does, and you’re the only survivor, then you’re left in a situation of, ‘What can I do?’”
Timbrell and Kilgore moved to Spain after several years sailing together. Having both previously lost partners to terminal illness, they were together for 17 years.
They had hoped to spend the rest of their lives together in the southern Spanish hills of Andalusia.
“She was such a happy, outgoing person,” Timbrell said of Kilgore. “We have had an amazing life together — and now it’s stopped.”
The wildfire spread rapidly, fueled by sweltering temperatures, high winds and dry land, scorching an area larger than Manhattan and at times racing across the parched landscape at more than 300 feet per minute.
Malcolm Timbrell and Annette Kilgore’s burnt-out house in Los Gallardos, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain, on 10 July, 2026, a day after it was engulfed in flames. Europa Press News
With the flames getting closer and closer to their home, Timbrell, Kilgore and their friends had to make a snap decision about how and when to flee.
They were going to try driving, but Timbrell quickly went back into their home to get the couple’s cats, Charlie and Lilly.
“If we’d have done the sensible thing and gone the other way and let our cats die, we both would be alive,” he told The BBC. “But when you’ve got animals, you don’t think like that.”
After grabbing Charlie and Lilly, Timbrell tried to rejoin the group, but saw that for some reason they had gotten out of their cars.
“My wife and our other seven friends and neighbors — against me screaming at them not to — decided the only safe way was to walk out in front of the firewall,” he said. “I’ve subsequently heard that that fire wall was moving at 20 kilometers (12 miles) per hour, plus. They had no chance.”
Timbrell tried to escape the flames in one of the abandoned cars.
“Of the six cars, four of them instantly combusted and as each one started to go, I moved back one car.”
“For some reason of fate, the last two cars, although very, very badly singed and paint bubbled and burnt, survived,” he said. “I survived inside the last one with a cat.”
Malcolm was eventually recused by local authorities, but eight bodies were found down the road from the couple’s house.
Three Britons — including a 93-year-old woman — and one French, Belgian and Spanish national, are among the confirmed fatalities.
Spanish authorities have said four more bodies, discovered in a burnt-out vehicle, are thought to be British.
Kilgore has not yet been formally identified.
“There’s just that little spark of hope,” Timbrell said, “even though I know a body has been found clutching a cat. Hard cold facts are pointing to the bodies they’ve found.”
“So we are just waiting now for DNA clarification. And after that, I will probably just fall apart.”
The blaze in Spain came as Europe swelters under record-setting heat — part of a growing climate crisis that is driving up average temperatures on the continent about twice as quickly as the rest of the globe.
Firefighters of the Andalusia Wildfire Service monitor a fire in the area of the wildfire that killed 13 near Bedar, in Los Gallardos district, in Almeria Province, July 10, 2026. JOSE JORDAN/AFP/Getty
Western Europe has just endured its hottest June ever recorded, causing nearly 10,700 excess deaths, and Italy has already entered its third major heat wave of the season.
In France, wildfires have already burned more land this year than during all of 2025. Tanker planes have been skimming the River Seine to scoop up water to try and douse blazes raging about 40 miles south of central Paris.
Hundreds of firefighters have been battling two blazes that have already charred about 4,900 acres in the Fontainebleau forest and forced about 1,000 people to evacuate from their homes, according to local authorities.
While much larger fires have hit southern France, the Fontainebleau blazes are relatively close to the densely populated region surrounding Paris.
No deaths or injuries have been reported in the area, and two people have been arrested in connection with the Fontainebleau fires, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said Tuesday on France’s BFM television.
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