The Minister of Security of the Government of the Canary Islands, Julio Pérez, has announced early in the afternoon of today Saturday that, in application of the Infoca Plan, the evacuation in a series of neighborhoods in Los Realejos and La Orotava.
Pérez has insisted that “these are evacuations that are based on the need to ensure that neither the fire nor the extinction work cause damage and inconvenience to the neighbors” and not an evacuation because there is an “imminent danger.”
Thus, due to the anticipated advance of the forest fire that affects the limit area of the Tigaiga hillside and due to the execution of technical maneuvers to control the fire, the evacuation of Las Arenitas, Cruz del Castaño and the area of Chanajiga, in the municipality of Los Realejos, and Orégano Street, belonging to La Orotava. The meeting point for the affected population has been established at the Las Llanadas sports center.
The advance of the descending wind already forced last night to evict five people from three isolated houses in Pista Lolita, in Icod el Alto.
