Evacuations in five municipalities of Tenerife this Thursday due to the forest fire


The Government of the Canary Islands has ordered the evacuation this Thursday of different areas of five municipalities on the island. The latter have been ordered in various areas of the municipalities of El Sauzal and La Matanza, in the north of Tenerife, as a result of the forest fire declared on the island last Tuesday.


Follow the last hour of the fire in Tenerife

Follow the last hour of the fire in Tenerife

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In the municipality of El Sauzal, the evacuation of the neighborhoods of Baboseras Altas, Camino El Pozo, Lomo Piedra to Calderetas (from San Cristóbal street to the mountain) and La Vica has been ordered. In La Matanza, the neighborhoods of La Vica and El Pirul have been ordered to be evacuated. The Government reports that evacuees can go to the La Perdoma pavilion in the municipality of La Orotava.

This Thursday, the eviction of the Pino Alto neighborhood, areas of Barranco Hondo, Las Rosas and Los Apaches-camino la Huerta and La Resbala, within the municipality of La Orotava; from Camino de la Granja, Los Eres, Lomo Juan Lian and the access to the Añavingo ravine, in Arafo; and from Vista La Huerta street, Preventorio street to Escuela Hogar (TF-274), Los Panascos Bajos road to Juan Antonio Díaz street, Las Rosas street, Doctor Caldera street to General Highway TF-24, all in the population center of La Esperanza, within the municipality of El Rosario.

Also this morning, the confinement of the urban area of ​​La Esperanza, in El Rosario, was ordered due to the intense pasaveo that this forest fire produces and that causes small secondary outbreaks.

Since the Government took over the management of the extinction work, there have been ten evacuation orders and one confinement order.

The municipalities in which they have been carried out are Arafo, Candelaria, El Rosario, La Victoria, Santa Úrsula and La Orotava and the latter are the first to be carried out in El Sauzal and La Matanza.

The latest figures offered by the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, indicated that between evacuees and confined there are some 7,600 people.



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