SPAIN
Firefighters work removing snow from a car during a heavy snowfall in Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain, on Saturday. An unusual and persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with snow, freezing traffic and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on Saturday. The capital, Madrid, and other parts of central Spain activated for the first time its red weather alert, its highest, and called in the military to rescue people.