A firefighter tries to control a raging forest fire in Ojen, southern Spain, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Spanish officials say some 4,000 people have been evacuated from their houses as a wildfire abetted by strong winds spread rapidly through hills around the popular southern tourist city of Marbella. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)
Firefighters tamed a wildfire on Saturday, September 1, that had threatened villages north of the upmarket beach resort of Marbella in Spain's southern Costa del Sol, allowing about 4,000 people who had been evacuated to return to their homes and hotels.