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TENERIFE LAST MINUTE FIRE | Air quality improves in Tenerife while air resources are focused on three municipalities

August 24, 2023
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TENERIFE LAST MINUTE FIRE |  Air quality improves in Tenerife while air resources are focused on three municipalities

The means of extinction continue in their titanic fight against the tenerife fire and the stabilization of a fire that began on August 15 and that has affected more than 14,700 hectares in a 90-kilometre perimeter is close.

The many hot spots that have existed in our mountains caused a immense amount of smoke that was located over the sky of the island, causing the quality of the air will worsen by forced marches, coming to have a rain of ash by many of the municipalities of the island.

Concentrations were recorded record for particles of less than one micron (PM1) in Canary Islands. This type of pollutant, even smaller than haze – which has already shown the potential to cause various cardiac and respiratory pathologies – in prolonged exposures, of months or years, can trigger heart disease.

Even according to the data The Canary Islands have emitted more CO₂ than in any month of August in the last two decades. These emissions, until August 22, amount to 0.3 megatons of CO₂, much of it caused by the fire.

air improvement

With the passing of the days and the improvement of the fire, that smoke has diminished and the air quality has improved throughout the island. He Government of the Canary Islands the air quality index has dropped to regular – unfavorablewhich affects four municipalities of Tenerife: Arafo, Candelaria, La Orotava and Los Realejos. The rest of the municipalities could be affected at specific moments depending on the arrival of smoke.

For the inhabitants of these nuclei they are recommended to use FPP2 maskswith greater emphasis on risk groups such as people with previous respiratory or heart diseases, pregnant women or the elderly.

🔥#IFArafoCandelaria #IFTenerife

➡️The air quality index is REGULAR – UNFAVORABLE especially in Los Realejos, La Orotava, Arafo and Candelaria

➡️The rest of the municipalities could be affected promptly in the event of the arrival of smoke from the fire pic.twitter.com/uSB6EHnwaZ

— 1-1-2 Canary Islands (@112canarias) August 24, 2023

acting front

The tasks of extinction of the forest fire in Tenerife are currently focused on three specific municipalities with different tasks:

  • Finish off the areas of La Hornaca and Montaña El Cerro, in Tacoronte, where there are houses very close to the line of fire.
  • Mal Abrigo, Güímar, where the fire is resisting in an abrupt area.
  • Barranco Hondo in Candelaria, an area where there have been significant reactivations.

Likewise, the terrestrial device will concentrate its efforts on attacking the numerous hot spots that remain in the rest of the affected surface.

New aerial reconnaissance

Starting at 5:00 p.m., there will be a reconnaissance flight around the perimeter of the fire on which different decisions will be made throughout the afternoon – night:

  • The back to their homes of the more than 200 people evacuated.

  • The opening of the accesses to the National Park of the Teidewhich for the moment continue to be closed on the north face due to extinction work.

  • He fire stabilization level at all its points.

Visit of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera

The Minister of Ecological Transition of the Government of Spain acting, Teresa Riberais in Tenerife in order to see first-hand the condition that the llamas have had in the Tenerife mountains.

Ribera referred in his appearance before the media to the “exemplary” work that is being done in the fire in Tenerife by all means of work. He thanked all citizens for their “civic behavior” and that they have known that “the important thing is to follow the instructions of the authorities”.

He also referred to the Government’s commitment to Tenerife, where “there is still a lot of work ahead to control, cool, stabilize and subsequently restore the damage caused. The Government of Spain is here, with the people of Tenerife, with the people who have lived with anguish these days. We have the commitment and the conviction that at the time of the emergency as well as at the time of restoration, it will contribute its grain of sand to the authorities and to society”.





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