Tenerife Island Forest Fires
https://thecanarynews.com/2023/08/wildfires-ravage-tenerife-after-a-night-more-favourable-than-expected-devastation-and-unprecedented-challenges/
As of the latest reports, ferocious blazes have already consumed a staggering 8,400 hectares of land, in just 5 nights, and 4 days, leaving behind a trail of destruction and uncertainty. The situation has escalated to the point where it was being described as an inferno of unprecedented magnitude, with a perimeter spanning a daunting 70 kilometres with a front entrenched across the northern mountains of the island.
More than 12,000 evacuees
The advance of the fire has forced the confirmed evacuation of 12,679 people. On Saturday, the Minister of Social Welfare of the Canary Islands Government, Candelaria Delgado, advanced a figure of 26,000 evacuated, but that number actually referred to the potential based on the census of populations foreseeably affected.
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https://thecanarynews.com/2023/08/wildfires-ravage-tenerife-after-a-night-more-favourable-than-expected-devastation-and-unprecedented-challenges/
As of the latest reports, ferocious blazes have already consumed a staggering 8,400 hectares of land, in just 5 nights, and 4 days, leaving behind a trail of destruction and uncertainty. The situation has escalated to the point where it was being described as an inferno of unprecedented magnitude, with a perimeter spanning a daunting 70 kilometres with a front entrenched across the northern mountains of the island.
More than 12,000 evacuees
The advance of the fire has forced the confirmed evacuation of 12,679 people. On Saturday, the Minister of Social Welfare of the Canary Islands Government, Candelaria Delgado, advanced a figure of 26,000 evacuated, but that number actually referred to the potential based on the census of populations foreseeably affected.
#Tenerife #ForestFires #CanaryIslands #AtlanticOcean #Spain