SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The reactivation of the forest fire this past summer in the upper area of the municipalities of Santa Úrsula and La Orotava has forced about 3,000 people to be evacuated preventively this Wednesday, sources from the Cabildo de Tenerife inform Europa Press.
Specifically, some 2,400 people belong to the La Corujera neighborhood, in Santa Úrsula, and another 600 to Pino Alto, in La Orotava, whose City Council has set up the Quiquirá pavilion for those affected.
Two helicopters from the Cabildo, two from the central Government and two helicopters from the Eirif of La Palma, belonging to the Government of the Canary Islands, are working in the area, and ground personnel and material resources from the Forestry Brigades of the Cabildo (Brifor) and of the Tenerife Firefighters Consortium.
The corporation points out, however, that the La Corujera and Pino Alto outbreaks are already stabilized and that the columns of smoke are very striking as the brambles and heather burn, so citizens are asked not to access the mountain. in these areas and follow the instructions of the authorities.
