The Council of Tenerife reports this Friday that the ifire declared in the area of Camino Guillén –located between The lagoon and El Rosario– is controlled after having burned more than 20 hectares of brambles, ferns, heather and lard. According to the president of the insular corporation, Pedro Martín, there is another attempt declared today, Friday, in San Juan de La Rambla.
“The presence of aerial means has been activated preventively” to contain the flames, according to Martin, who trusts that this fire will also be stopped “in the next few hours.” At the moment, the Tenerife and Brifor fire departments are also acting.
Regarding the fire last Wednesday, the flames, which did not reach the municipality of El Rosario, caused the preventive evacuation of twenty people from the neighborhoods of Juan Fernández and Las Erillas who were able to return to their homes on the same Wednesday night.
The first notice came at approximately 3:30 p.m. Something was happening at a border point between La Laguna and El Rosario. Firefighters, Brifor and different police forces moved to the place. The conato was going to more. Seen from afar, from the La Esperanza highway (TF-24), it appeared as a large column of smoke with a very marked point of origin. To establish a simile, the image could recall those bonfires that decades ago were made inside a drum on farms in the midlands and in which the smoke rose very vertically. It was no coincidence that something similar happened in this case: after its start and its first advances, the fire went into a ravine where it found enough fuel.
The fire was declared minutes before 4 p.m. this Wednesday and in the operation also Two helicopters, Local Police and Civil Guard participated.
