A man arrested for throwing a stone and rendering one of the helicopters fighting the fire in Tenerife inoperative

A resident of Güímar has been arrested for throwing a stone from the La Montañeta area at one of the helicopters that works to extinguish the tenerife fire when he replenished water in an agricultural tank. The aircraft has been rendered inoperative after the impact on the tail rotor and the propellers and had to make an emergency landing on the Fátima soccer field.

In the press conference to give the last minute on the fire, the president of the Tenerife Council, Rosa Dávila, has reported the event and has attributed this action to the hoaxes that are being spread and that can cause “some people to do this type of of things for fear of losing their crops”, despite the fact that all the water that has been collected to fight the fire will be replaced.

“It is very important that we can work calmly and without more risk than the media already have in their work,” Rosa Dávila asked, to warn that the only official source of information “is this table”, alluding to the facilities from the Emergency and Security Coordination Center 112 from where the fire assessment meetings and press conferences take place. Dávila has insisted that it is very dangerous to alarm because “then this type of thing occurs.”

The Minister of Territorial Policy of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Miranda, has specified that all the helicopters have GPS so that the water is known at all times and the place where it has been captured, for which he has reassured everyone the owners of deposits who see that they are diminishing since their content will be replaced at the appropriate time.

This incident will cause this Tuesday two less aerial means to work in the fight against the fire, one of them from the Cabildo de Tenerife damaged by the impact of the stone and another, from the Ministry of Ecological Transition that has a breakdown in a part of the hydraulic system .