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No major tourist areas have been affected. Weather conditions overnight were "better than expected" Tenerife's fire brigade said on Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter. Fernando Clavijo, Canary Islands' regional leader, said the largest firefighting deployment in the history of Tenerife had so-far prevented the loss of any homes. Evacuations were ordered throughout Saturday due to worsening weather conditions. Popular tourist areas on Tenerife, part of the Canaries archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, have so far been unaffected and its two airports have been operating normally.
Persons: Fernando Clavijo, Rosa Davila, Jessica Jones, Nacho, Frances Kerry, Susan Fenton Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Twitter, Thomson Locations: Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Rights TENERIFE, Europe, Spain's La Palma, Canada, Maui, Lahaina
TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Spain, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Thousands more people were evacuated from their homes on the Spanish island of Tenerife on Saturday as a wildfire raging in the north of the island remained out of control, but the flames have so far avoided major tourist areas. The Canary Islands emergency services said more than 26,000 people had been evacuated by Saturday afternoon, according to provisional estimates, a sharp rise from 4,500 on Friday. The fire was at a scale that has never been seen before in the Canary Islands, Tenerife Council President Rosa Davila told reporters. [1/6]Samuel, 34, uses binoculars in the village of La Victoria, as wildfires rage out of control on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain August 19, 2023. In La Victoria, in the north-west of the island, some people who had been evacuated were receiving medical help.
Persons: Fernando Clavijo, President Rosa Davila, Samuel, Paulina Fernandez, Nacho Doce, Jessica Jones, Clelia Organizations: Saturday, President, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Spain, Tenerife, La Victoria, Europe, Spain's La Palma, Canada, Maui, Lahaina
[1/2] A view of a wildfire in La Palma, Spain, July 15, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. 1-1-2 Canarias Via Twitter/Handout via REUTERSBARCELONA, July 15 (Reuters) - At least 2,000 people have been evacuated as a forest fire burned out of control in the Spanish island of La Palma, authorities said on Saturday, as Europe was gripped by a heatwave. Many parts of southern Spain saw scorching temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) last week and even higher temperatures are expected next week in Spain and across southern Europe. The fire in La Palma started in the early hours of Saturday morning in El Pinar de Puntagorda, a wooded area at the north of the island in the Canaries. It depends on whether we can bring these strong winds under control," Clavijo told reporters in La Palma.
Persons: Marcos Lorenzo, Fernando Clavijo, Clavijo, Graham Keeley, Clelia Oziel, Christina Fincher Organizations: Via Twitter, REUTERS, La Palma, Canaries, La, Thomson Locations: La Palma, Spain, REUTERS BARCELONA, Spanish, Europe, La, El Pinar de Puntagorda, Puntagorda, Tijarafe, Canary, Tenerife, Africa
Forest fire in Spain's La Palma island forces evacuations
  + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
[1/2] A view of a wildfire in La Palma, Spain, July 15, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. 1-1-2 Canarias Via Twitter/Handout via REUTERSBARCELONA, July 15 (Reuters) - A forest fire in the Spanish island of La Palma has forced the evacuation of at least 500 people, authorities said on Saturday, in the first natural crisis on the island since a volcanic eruption on 2021. At least 11 houses were destroyed as the fire advanced, Fernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands said on Saturday. It depends on whether we can bring these strong winds under control," Clavijo told reporters in La Palma. Authorities in the island were seeking help from other islands in the archipelago, such as Gomera and Tenerife.
Persons: Fernando Clavijo, Clavijo, Graham Keeley, Clelia Organizations: Via Twitter, REUTERS, La, Authorities, Thomson Locations: La Palma, Spain, REUTERS BARCELONA, Spanish, El Pinar de Puntagorda, Africa, Tenerife
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