Ruben Fernandez, president of the Tenerife Firefighters Consortiumhas issued a series of important advice for all those drivers who circulate on the roads of Tenerife during the fire that punishes the island.
Fernández asks not to access, in any way, the forest areas. There is a resolution of the Cabildo de Tenerife that strictly prohibits access to forestry. It is the first consideration to take into account.
It is necessary to avoid the roads in places where the interveners are located, all those people who are fighting the fire in a heroic way: “It is important to avoid occupying those spaces because, really, they can disturb traffic and put themselves at risk them, because we are talking about heavy vehicles”.
The Tenerife fire that broke out last Thursday and that already affects five municipalities: La Orotava, Los Realejos, San Juan de la Rambla, La Guancha and Icod de los Vinos, continues to be active but with slow progress, mainly on the flank east, and the affected area is already 2,423 hectares, with an approximate perimeter of 26 kilometers.
This has been reported by the president of Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, who appeared before the media after attending the technical coordination meeting in the morning, in which he was accompanied by the Minister for Public Administrations, Justice and Security, Julio Pérez; the head of the Civil Protection service, Montserrat Román, and the BRIFOR spokesperson, Pedro Martínez.
The president explained that the area of greatest concern at the moment is the Chanajiga area, as it is inaccessible by land, so that today the aerial means are going to concentrate on the Tigaiga slope. Specifically, this Sunday thirteen air assets are operating, including the two seaplanes, and today a reinforcement of 40 troops from the Military Emergency Unit (UME) will arrive.
