Tenerife Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate

Tenerife Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate

A seaplane works to extinguish a forest fire, August 19, 2023, in La Orotava, 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 the worsening of the weather conditions, so that the direction of the Emergencies of the Infoca Plan has been forced to order new evacuations in 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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