BREAKING: Huge Wildfire Tenerife. Mass Evacuations Underway

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Much like Maui

Approximately five million tourists visit Tenerife each year; it is the most visited island in the archipelago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife

Tenerife burns


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLfTfv0t_3I

Huge Wildfire Tenerife Were Evacuating.

Ferocious wildfires ‘with huge potential’ to wipe out villages on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife have triggered mass evacuations from the area.

Five villages have now been evacuated as the fire continues to rage through a forested area in steep ravines in the northeastern part of the island.

The blazing wildfires have ripped through 300 hectares of land in a nature park surrounding the Mount Teide volcano, forcing hundreds of locals and tourists to flee.

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Most of the wildfire is currently contained to the Corona Forestral national park but officials have warned that highly flammable pine trees in the area could see the flames expand further towards tourist hotspots such as Puerto de la Cruz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Firefighters are desperately trying to douse the flames with water but the blaze is raging through a forested area in steep ravines, making their task much more difficult.

‘The fire is powerful and is in a complicated area,’ Canary Islands regional President Fernando Clavijo told a news conference in Tenerife. ‘Efforts are focused on preventing the fire from spreading and affecting mainly residential areas close to the coast,’ he added.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12412637/Four-villages-evacuated-ferocious-wildfires-huge-potential-rip-Spanish-holiday-island.html

h/t DOORBERT