The progress of the fire Tenerife It is still out of control and has already fully entered the Cañadas del Teide National Park. Emergency teams struggle to control a fire that seems to have no end and is continuously affected by changes in the weather.
At this time, they are 26,000 people evacuatedto which must be added the figures of the new evacuees from Tacoronte, and the llamas they have razed 6,791 hectares. It is a fire that, although it seems to be evolving favorably on the southern slope, is getting worse in the north.
The remote cameras installed near the Observatory of the Canary Islands Astrophysical Institute (IAC) in Izaña for the TeideLab project, from Aemet and Teide Cable Car, are capturing, since this Saturday afternoon, how the fire is entering the heart of the Teide National Park by the lower part of Izaña. The flames are approaching from the north face, from the access road to Teide through La Orotava.
Sources from the project assure that the images that are coming from these cameras draw a “awful” situation with a wide fire front that approaches the access road to the National Park, very close to the telescopes of the astrophysics center and the Izaña Meteorological Observatory.
The fire front is accompanied by important columns of smoke.
Evacuation
He Teide Observatory IAC was evacuated during the day on Friday due to the risk of fire, while in the images released, in addition to the proximity to this facility, small outbreaks can be seen in the area near the Mirador del Caramujo, in the municipality of La Orotava.
However, it seems that the situation has worsened in recent hours.
Destroying the natural landscape
the fire is leaving bleak images in Tenerife, destroying much of its natural landscape. One of the most striking occurred in the early days, when it was captured how the flames finished off the Chipeque viewpointone of the most beautiful of all Canary Islands.
Now only trust the professionals of the extinction work and that time accompanies and favors said work to prevent the fire from continuing to expand and destroy new spaces on the Island.
