{"id":18695,"date":"2023-08-17T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18695"},"modified":"2023-08-17T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:20:38","slug":"spain-wildfires-more-than-3000-people-evacuated-from-tenerife-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/spain-wildfires-more-than-3000-people-evacuated-from-tenerife-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain wildfires: More than 3,000 people evacuated from Tenerife island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 3,800 people were evacuated as firefighters struggled to tackle a wildfire that broke out in a mountainous national park located on the island of Tenerife in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The fire&#8217;s perimeter expanded to 31 kilometers (19 miles) across dry woodland covering both flanks of steep ravines near the Mount Teide volcano &#8211; Spain&#8217;s highest peak &#8211; hampering access to the area and covering much of the island with smoke clouds and ash.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which broke out on Wednesday, has burned through 2,600 hectares (6,425 acres) of land, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The night has been very tough&#8230;This is the most complex fire we&#8217;ve had in the Canary Islands in the last 40 years,&#8221; the region&#8217;s leader, Fernando Clavijo, told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Martinez, head of emergency services in Tenerife, said the fire had spread to the north and towards a valley where several camping sites are located.<\/p>\n<p>While some villages were evacuated out of precaution, residents in a few others were ordered to stay home, affecting a further 3,500 people.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hawaii-maui-wildfires-death-toll-rises-to-36.html\">Hawaii: Maui wildfires death toll rises to 36<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A prison and a migrant reception center were in the areas under confinement, Clavijo said.<\/p>\n<p>Civil protection removed 1,294 people from their homes in the municipality of El Rosario and 1,525 from areas of La Orotava on Thursday, with total evacuations reaching 3,800 people.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities deployed 17 aircraft and a combined 350 firefighters and military personnel. Additional waterbombing aircraft arrived from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>All access to the mountains on the island, including tourist-favourite Mount Teide, has been closed off to prevent any incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Tenerife&#8217;s two airports were operating normally, Spanish airport operator Aena said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a heatwave in the Canary Islands left many areas bone dry, heightening the risk of wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, firefighters have extinguished a series of forest fires on the islands of Gran Canaria and La Palma, which form part of the Canary Islands archipelago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 3,800 people were evacuated as firefighters struggled to tackle a wildfire that broke out in a mountainous national park located on the island of Tenerife in Spain. The fire&#8217;s perimeter expanded to 31 kilometers (19 miles) across dry woodland covering both flanks of steep ravines near the Mount Teide volcano &#8211; Spain&#8217;s highest peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[6334],"class_list":["post-18695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}