the fire of Tenerife it has lost its virulence and is on the way to being controlled. After neutralizing the last active front, located in the municipality of Güímar, the fire was considered stabilized and, after a few days, there have been changes in your emergency level.
Manuel Miranda, Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water, was in charge of announcing the change in the risk situation, lowering it to Emergency Level 1as set out in the INFOCA. The evolution of the fire allows this update and he Council of Tenerife will assume the direction of the emergency. During Level 2 it was the Government of the Canary Islands the person in charge of this responsibility.
They will also be in charge of the intervention of resources and communication to the population. This level contemplates the affectation of assets of a forest nature and, where appropriate, slight affectation to the population and assets of a non-forest nature.
disaster zone
On the other hand, this Monday a Governing Council was held with the presence of the president, Fernando Clavijoand the counselors. In it A report has been commissioned in order to quantify the bushfire damage from the fire.
This way, The idea is to speed up the procedures for the declaration of a catastrophic area by the State. This is the idea of the acting Spanish Government, as confirmed by the acting president, Pedro Sánchez, during his last stay on the island.
More than 12,000 hectares burned
The European satellite system Copernicus has raised the burned area to 12,273 hectares due to the Tenerife forest fire declared on August 15 in its latest update.
There are 1,316 hectares more than those estimated last Friday and make it the worst fire in Canary Islands of the last 40 years. The area affected by the flames in the Tenerife fire exceeds 14,000 hectares in a perimeter of 90 kilometers.
