SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Members of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and the EIRIF of El Hierro and La Gomera will join the work to fight the reactivation of the forest fire in the municipalities of Santa Úrsula and La Orotava, on the island of Tenerife, and which during the early hours of this Thursday has been raised to level 2, with the Government of the Canary Islands assuming the direction of its extinction.
Specifically, a total of 60 soldiers and 26 UME vehicles joined the firefighting efforts this Thursday morning, as reported by the Military Emergency Unit; while the EIRIF has indicated that a team from El Hierro and another from La Gomera, which will travel by boat along with one of the fire engines, will arrive in Tenerife this Thursday morning.
The unfavorable evolution of the fire, as reported by Emergencies 112 Canarias, has led the Government of the Canary Islands to assume direction of the extinguishing work, at the request of the Cabildo of Tenerife, which requested the activation of the fire alarm at around midnight this Wednesday. the Military Emergency Unit.
Hours earlier, the island corporation had estimated 2,600 people evacuated as a precaution, with 2,400 people in La Corujera and 200 in Pino Alto.
Up to this moment, from the General Directorate of Emergencies, and through the operational rooms of 112, the activation of troops and two helicopters from the Forest Fire Intervention and Reinforcement Teams (EIRIF) of the Government of the Canary Islands based in La Palma.
In addition to four helicopters from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, two of them with heliborne brigades of the BRIF of Puntagorda, assigned to the service of the Autonomous Community, and a helicopter from the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) have joined the rest of the aerial device and land deployed by the different town councils, the Cabildo and the State.
However, if necessary, other resources that the Cabildo may request would be mobilized, the Government reports in a note.
