Tenerife Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate

Tenerife Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate

An agent of the Guardia Civil warns a neighbor of the evacuation of the municipality because of the fire, on August 19, 2023, in La Victoria de Acentejo, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain). The situation of the forest fire that started on the night of August 15 in the mountain of Arafo, on the island of Tenerife, has become more complicated in the northern area of during the last hours due to the worsening weather conditions, so that the Emergency Management of the Infoca Plan has been forced to order new evacuations in the towns of La Orotava, La Matanza, La Victoria de Acentejo, with others planned in El Sauzal, Santa Ursula and Tacoronte. The fire, although normalized, is still uncontrolled and has affected 5,000 hectares with a perimeter of 50 kilometers. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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