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Spanish authorities evacuated four villages in Tenerife as wildfires broke out in the nature park surrounding Mount Teide volcano.
An inferno has broken out in Tenerife after Spain’s heatwave left many areas of the island dry and susceptible to fires.
TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Spain (Reuters) -Firefighters on Thursday struggled to contain a wildfire that broke out in a mountainous national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife amid hot and dry weather, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 4,500 people. "This is the most complex fire we've had in the Canary Islands in the last 40 years," the region's leader, Fernando Clavijo, told a news conference. He added they were racing to control the blaze before an expected increase in temperatures
He mobilized 14 airmen and a total of 250 firefighters and military personnel. A forest fire that broke out in a national park on the Spanish island of
A heatwave last week left many areas tinderbox dry, creating ideal wildfires conditions, and temperatures are forecast to climb again in the coming days.