The National Police and the Civil Guard investigating the causes of the forest fire which started on Thursday in the area of Los Campechesin the Tenerife municipality of Los Realejos, and which already affects land in San Juan de La Rambla and La Guancha.
Sources from the National Police have indicated to Efe that since Thursday the causes of the origin of the fire, which began in a area where two weeks ago there was another attackas stated today by the president of the Canary Islands, Angel Victor Torres.
Precisely, the leader of the regional Executive had advanced in the press conference first thing in the morning that the investigations in this sense were had been placed in the hands of the security forces.
In this sense, the head of services of Civil protection and Emergency Attention of the Canarian Government, Montserrat Román, said that the exact place where the fire started has been known since yesterday, which has been considered good news for research.
Torres also highlighted that “it is not known if it was intentional or nothas asked that the specialists be allowed to work”. Since last Thursday, the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, also understood that “it is not surprising” that the flames were provoked.
The perimeter of this fire is about 11 kilometers and the area affected is about 500 hectares, especially public forest, and as a result of this fire it has not been necessary to evacuate neighbors, although some have decided to stay with relatives.
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has indicated this Friday that the fire is still active, and has added that although the forecast is for temperatures to drop in the next few hours, it is also expected that they will rise again on Sunday, to also remember that all Canary Islands is on alert for forest fires.
In the work of controlling this fire we work with ten aerial means and with about 150 people from the ground directly, while more than 100 collaborate, including local and national police, civil guard, Red Cross, and other services.
