The aerial means have downloaded 3 million liters of water against the fire of the Tenerife fire

Concerns about air quality in Tacoronte

The City Council recommends that residents stay at home and wear masks without going out

The air quality as a result of tenerife fire It has worsened during the morning of this Monday in the municipality of Tacoronte. As confirmed by municipal sources, a thick smoke detected in the town led us to believe that “one of the outbreaks had been reactivated in the surroundings of the El Cerro mountain”.

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We also pray for the authorities, for the security forces and for all the technicians, so that they make the right decisions, so that the fire can be controlled and put out soon.

Our management team is in contact with the municipal officials of the affected municipalities and with the Red Cross, and both the president of Cáritas Española, Manuel Bretón, and the institution’s general secretary, Natalia Peiro, are in contact with our management team to Coordinate all those actions that are being implemented to meet the needs of the affected people.

Faced with this tremendous catastrophe, which already affects eleven municipalities on the island and which has burned nearly 12,000 hectares of Mount Tenerife, we join the request of the Diocese of Nivariense and pray to God that all the people who are working directly in the extinction of this fire, do not suffer any harm and that your efforts are effective.

Similarly, Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife has contacted all the priests in the areas affected by the fire, to meet the basic needs of the affected people. Some of these priests, together with the parish volunteers, have come to help the evacuees who are still today in the housing resources set up for the evicted. Similarly, our technical teams from the Mobile Street Care Units for homeless people, UMAC project, are in contact with people who have been affected, many of whom have had to be evacuated or confined to settlements, ravines , caves or substandard housing in which they lived.

Given the social emergency that has occurred on the island of Tenerife due to the forest fire that originated on the night of August 15 on Mount Arafo, Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife has made available all its human and material resources to collaborate in the attention and accompaniment that is being provided to people who have been evicted from their homes and rehoused in different facilities and provisional shelters. In this sense, our management team has contacted the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife and the different municipal administrations to collaborate in the support that is being provided to the thousands of affected families.

Today’s goal is to complete the perimeter of the Tacoronte area and focus especially on the Valley of La Orotava, in a wide line that goes from Aguamansa to Chanajiga, so that the hot spots collide with that barrier and cannot go down to lower bounds.

By improving the northern area of ​​the fire, more means can be concentrated, especially aerial, in Mal Abrigo Conde it is intended to distribute more water and retardant to prevent the evolution of the Fire towards Fasnia.

Today the 22 air resources are involved, two of them for coordination and 610 troops, of which 255 are intervention, 197 security, 40 logistics and 160 volunteers and municipal groups.

Regarding the tasks carried out by the device, the technicians explained that there has been little activity at night, with some occasional reproductions, especially in the municipality of Santa Úrsula, where the most striking ones have been produced. The most difficult moment occurred in Izaña, where the media had to withdraw for a while and then act forcefully to protect the infrastructure.

The area affected by the fire now reaches 13,383 hectares in twelve municipalities, when Fasnia was incorporated today, with a perimeter of 88.91 kilometers, once readjusted, occupying 33% of La Orotava.

As for the people housed, there are 969 in the centers set up and coordinated by the Canary Islands Government’s Department of Social Welfare, in addition to 300 pets.

However, the authorities warned that the air quality is very unfavorable due to the smoke from the forest fire, especially in the municipalities of Los Realejos, La Orotava and Arafo, therefore the use of the FFP2 mask and special attention to the population is recommended. sensitive, in addition to restricting outdoor activities whenever it is foreseen as they are very fine particles that may have a greater respiratory condition.

Rosa Dávila highlighted that the night strategy has allowed the fire to move away from the interface zone, where the mountains coexist with the houses, thanks to the effort and professionalism of the ground device.

The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, stated today that the evolution of the fire during the night has been favourable, although not exempt from difficulties for the firefighting teams, which allows us to face the day with some optimism and better prospects. If this situation continues, he added, new relocations will be studied for the nuclei of La Esperanza, in the municipality of El Rosario, and those that remain evacuated from Arafo, once the extinction director considers the area safe and always through the corresponding order that is carried out in coordination with the municipalities.

The Canarian footballer Pedri has sent his support this Sunday to the residents of Tenerifewhich are being affected by the serious fire that ravages the Island.

The aerial means have downloaded 3 million liters of water against the fire of the Tenerife fire

Tenerife is still immersed in the fight against the forest fire that originated in Arafo. Since then, air assets have been employed to combat it effectively. This fire has already reached eleven municipalities on the island.

Since the flames began on Tuesday, August 15, the aerial means have carried out a total of 1,773 water discharges to put out the fire. Together, these discharges have added an amount of 2.7 million liters of water used in the task.

He is a guanchero but works in Gran Canariaspecifically, as Technical Director of Emergencies of the Cabildo, a position from which he has become an informative reference when things go wrong and take on the appearance of a catastrophe like the one that has been subjecting the Island since last Tuesday.

The 900 people and the twenty aerial means that fight titanically against the flames in Tenerife have made important progress in the fire that devastates the Corona Forestal de la Isla, the largest protected area in the Canary Islands. Although the fire continues advancing, at least it has lost potential thanks also to the improvement of the weather and that on Saturday night the conditions were better than expected, even drizzling in some points of the enormous perimeter: 90 kilometers, according to the last data provided last night. The wind tends to lose strength, temperatures drop and humidity rises, helping to contain this fiery storm.

Yesterday it was confirmed what was an open secret and by the mouth of the President: “The fire was caused.” Although suspicions about an intentional origin were high, the comment did not reach the level of news until halfway through the first press conference yesterday Sunday. What Fernando Clavijo, president of the Government of the Canary Islandswas to enter to value the investigations carried out at present by the Civil Guard. “They have several lines of work, but I am not going to offer data about them,” he added. Specialists from the Judicial Police of the Armed Institute have been collecting data for days [fotos y testimonios] in the area where the first traces of a event which has devastated more than 13,000 hectares and with incidents in eleven municipalities.

The delegate of the Higher Center for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Canary IslandsManuel Nogales, shows his concern about the possible loss of endemic species of flora and invertebrates that may have been affected by the fire that has affected the Corona Forestal de Tenerife. Specific, Nogales puts the focus on six endemic species of flora that are affected, to which a seventh can possibly be added: the Añavingo cabezón, the pigeon’s beak, the Acentejo alamillo -the three typical of the Island-, the Canarian cedar , the Canarian garbancera and the orchid of the Añavingo ravine.