Emergency services for the Canary Islands said later that the number of evacuees could surpass 26,000
Thousands more people in Tenerife have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged for a fourth day. The regional government for the Canary Islands said that 4,000 more people were ordered to evacuate on Saturday.
Emergency services for the Canary Islands said later that the number of evacuees “could surpass 26,000” according to provisional calculations based on the island’s census. The service added that all those people who needed somewhere to take refuge would be directed to shelters. “We have never seen a fire of this dimension on the Canary Islands,” the island’s governor, Rosa Davila, said. No injuries have been reported since the fire broke out late on Tuesday.
The regional chief of the archipelago, Fernando Clavijo, said that police are investigating the cause of the fire. The Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, just like most of mainland Spain. The islands have recorded below-average rainfall in recent years because of changing weather patterns affected by climate change.
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