SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has activated this Wednesday the Territorial Insular Emergency Plan (PEIN) in a preventive manner in view of the alert situation due to maximum temperatures and the risk of forest fire.
The decision has been adopted based on the maximum alert for high temperatures issued by the Security and Emergencies Directorate of the Government of the Canary Islands, and the activation by which the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Attention for Forest Fires of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (INFOCA).
The Minister of the Natural Environment, Blanca Pérez, points out in a note that “these days temperatures are going to reach between 32 and 38 degrees, for which reason it has been decided to preventively activate the PEIN and adopt measures to protect the population and prevent forest fires.
For this reason, he indicates, “we appeal to the public to avoid accessing the mountains and to exercise extreme precautions.”
Thus, the Cabildo applies grade 3 measures that prohibit the stay of people in the mountains and cross-country transit, along forest trails or tracks, on foot or by any means of locomotion, except for the use of easements for the access of their holders to properties and infrastructures.
Likewise, it is prohibited to make fire in recreational areas, camping areas and campsites, to burn agricultural or forest residues and bonfires.
Work with machinery or tools is also prohibited, as is the use of elements that can generate sparks in agricultural or forest areas, such as brushcutters and welding equipment.
In addition, logging, hunting activities throughout the island, the movement of motor vehicles on the network of forest trails for recreational purposes, as well as sporting events and pilgrimages on tracks and forest trails and off-road are prohibited.
The Cabildo de Tenerife calls on the population to follow the recommendations of the authorities, among which are not to access or remain in the forest areas of the island of Tenerife and to exercise extreme precautions throughout the island territory with any activity that may generating fires –tobacco, use of generators, electrical and pyrotechnic material–.
