The councils of Gran Canaria and Lanzarote have sent contingents of personnel and equipment to the island of Tenerife to collaborate in the control and extinction tasks of the forest fire declared on Tuesday night in the municipalities of Arafo and Candelaria.
Initially, the personnel agreed upon in the Plan to Fight Forest Fires of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (Infoca), made up of two land brigades and the analysis unit, which will travel to Tenerife as soon as the General Directorate of Emergencies of the Government of the Canary Islands indicates.
A helicopter of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria It has already been activated and mobilized to act in the fire on the neighboring island, they have indicated.
In addition, personnel from Cecopin (Centro de Control Operativo Insular) in Gran Canaria collaborate in tasks of monitoring and continuous analysis of the fire in Tenerife, providing their forecasts on the evolution of the fire.
At the request of the Government of the Canary Islands, a team of the Fire Brigade of the Gran Canaria Emergency Consortium with its material resourcesmade up of 14 troops, three Light Urban Bombs, two Tanker Vehicles, two Rescue Technicians and two Commanders, which will set sail this afternoon from Agaete.
The president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, has shown his solidarity with the island of Tenerife and has remained in contact with his Tenerife counterpart, Rosa Dávila.
It has also made its means available to collaborate with the emergency services and forest firefighters of Tenerife in a fire that already affects 800 hectares and advances towards the north of the island after overcoming the insular ridge.
For its part, a crew of five members of the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium will travel this Wednesday to Tenerife by air, and it is expected that This Thursday a 4×4 vehicle, a 3,500-liter BRP and two other firefighters will be sent by boat.
“We show our solidarity in the fire on La Palma and we will do so whenever collaboration is required to put out fires that put the Canarian landscape at risk,” said the president of the Lanzarote Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, in statements collected in a statement .
The fire has forced several preventive evictions and the situation is complicated given the orography of the land, which has caused the Canarian Government to ask the State to mobilize three seaplanes to join the fight against the flames.
