The forest fire on the Canary Island of Tenerife, popular with holidaymakers, is still not under control. The flames have already covered about 5,000 hectares of nature, Canarian Prime Minister Fernando Clavijo said late Friday evening. That is about the size of 7,000 football fields.
Due to the slower spread of the fire, curfews were lifted for several thousand people in the municipality of El Rosario. According to official information, the flames that had been raging in the northeast of the island since late Tuesday evening were also fought by some 300 emergency services on Saturday night.
After daybreak, a total of 18 firefighting aircraft and helicopters would be deployed again on Saturday, the ministry said. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated from their homes since the fires broke out. Emergency shelters have been set up in gymnasiums. The cause of the fire that broke out near the municipality of Arafo was still unclear.
Wind makes extinguishing work more difficult
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a visit to the island for Monday. According to Prime Minister Clavijo, it is probably one of the worst fires in Tenerife in the last 40 years. According to official information, the firefighting operations were hampered from the start by the difficult terrain and bad weather conditions. Fortunately, the winds have now become much weaker, it said.
As a precaution, the access roads to the Teide volcano, which is popular with tourists, have been closed. Nevertheless, normality prevailed in the tourist areas, as the Tenerife travel authority stressed. According to the latest information from the travel organization Tui, there are no travel restrictions so far.
State Department: People Must Record Travel
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna announced on Friday that none of the Austrian travelers affected by the fires have reported to the ministry or the responsible Austrian embassy in Madrid. “We have occasionally received inquiries from people who wanted to know more about the situation on the ground before their trip,” he said.
“Those affected can contact the emergency number (+43-501150-4411) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at any time.” The forest fires in Tenerife would once again show the importance of not registering a trip at (https://auslandsregistrierung.bmeia). .gv.at) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs only on exotic destinations. Currently, there are only about 440 Austrian holidaymakers registered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in all of Spain.
Source: Krone
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