Tenerife Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate
The municipality covered in smoke from 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 been complicated in the northern area of during the last hours due to worsening weather conditions, so that the direction of the Plan Infoca Emergencies has been forced to order new evacuations in nuclei of La Orotava, La Matanza, La Victoria de Acentejo, others are 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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