Some fifty homes are being preventively evacuated in Los Realejos, in the Las Llanadas area
The fire declared Thursday night in Tenerifewhich has already burned more than 2,000 hectares, it got worse tonight since, according to the Security and Emergencies area of ​​the Los Realejos City Council, the direction of the wind turned “180 degrees” and “people and animals had to be evacuated and relocated.”
This fire in the north of Tenerife affects the municipalities of The Royals,San Juan de La Rambla and La Guancha and arrived last night in the vicinity of the Teide National Park, specifically in the area of Strength, where there have been flames 60 meters high. The fire has entered the municipality of Icod de los Vinos, although its progress has been stopped in La Orotava. Nail fifty dwellings are being evacuated preventively in Los Realejos, in the Las Llanadas area.
This was explained to the media by the Security Councilor of the Government of the Canary Islands, Julio Pérez, who revealed the “contradictory” feeling of the firefighting teams because the flames do not advance towards populated areas but they do run strongly towards the summit and the National Park.
Segn coment, San Juan de la Rambla It is the “most affected” municipality. Yesterday afternoon, around 4:00 p.m., there was already a “sudden change” in the direction of the wind that took the fire to the east in the direction of the Valley of La Orotava.
The situation due to the fires improves in Galicia, with three more controlled
Three forest fires have managed to be controlled last night in Galiciawhere there are no longer any fires that put population centers at risk and the area affected by the fire has been almost stable since Thursday.
Two of the fires that have managed to be controlled are in the town of Ombra (Ourense) and another in Cervantes (Lugo), among the dozen unextinguished fires reported this Saturday by the Ministry of Rural Affairs.
None of these fires is already in situation 2, due to the risk of population centers, after this alert level was deactivated yesterday in the two largest, the fires that are still active in Folgoso do Courel and A Pobra de Brolln (Lugo). ), which add up to 11,100 hectares between the parishes of Vilamor, Saa and Seceda, and Carballeda de Valdeorras (Ourense), with 10,500 hectares.
The area affected by forest fires in Galicia remains almost stable with 31,145 hectares, some 200 more than yesterday, as the extent of the fire registered in the parish of Videferre, in Ombra, increased, which was controlled at 11:41 p.m. yesterday after burn 800 hectares.
The Cebreros (vila) fire is still at Level 2 pending reactivation
The device deployed in the Cebreros fire (vila), which maintains Level 2 of danger on a scale of 0 to 3, intervenes this Saturday to control reactivations that are being produced in a perimeter of 50 kilometers where 4,500 hectares have burned so far.
These actions are being carried out in the vicinity of El Hoyo de Pinares, whose neighbors were evicted from their homes last Monday and began to return on Thursday.
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