Daughter of British couple killed in Spanish wildfire rejects claim they ignored order to leave

Exclusive: Danielle Kirton calls on Ed Miliband to help her get answers about why evacuation order came too late The bereaved daughter of a British couple who died in a Spanish wildfire is calling on the foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, to get answers from Spain’s government about why her parents were not told to evacuate until it was too late. Severe wildfires have burned across Spain and France since early July, killing people, destroying thousands of homes and forcing more than 300,000 people to flee. Pete and Fran Gillam, who lived in Bédar in Almería, died in mid-July while fleeing their home as a wildfire tore through the village. They were among 13 people killed in the fires, many of whom died in their cars as they tried to escape. Danielle Kirton, 42, an assistant headteacher from Nottinghamshire, has spent the weeks since her parents died looking for answers. She knows her mother would have followed official advice had she have been given it. Though the fire alert came at 4.30pm, the evacuation order did not come until more than three hours later. Kirton said this was delivered by a lone police officer, who was “frantically driving from house to house” and Spain’s official