“The environmental damage has already been done,” said Ángel Víctor Torres, the region’s president, in comments carried by the private Europa Press news agency. The island was experiencing temperatures close to 104 F, humidity levels below 30% and strong winds, which usually provide what experts call the “perfect storm” for virulent wildfires. Officials described the fire as having “great potential” to spread. Nine helicopters and two planes were aiding at least 600 people including firefighters and army emergency personnel who were working in shifts to tackle the blaze. The latest blaze broke out on Saturday afternoon near the town of Valleseco on Gran Canaria island in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago.īy Sunday afternoon, the fire had taken two different directions, burning more than 4,200 acres as it continued advancing, the provincial government said in a series of tweets. MADRID > Around 4,000 people were evacuated today because of wildfires that, for the second time in a week, ravaged the countryside of one of Spain’s Canary Islands.
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