MADRID, Aug 19 — Firefighters made headway Friday in their battle against a vast wildfire raging out of control in the forested interior of the holiday island of Tenerife that...
MADRID, Aug 19 — Firefighters made headway Friday in their battle against a vast wildfire raging out of control in the forested interior of the holiday island of Tenerife that has forced 4,500 people to flee.
By midday , firefighters noticed a “favourable evolution” on the main front of the fire, Montserrat Roman, head of civil protection for the seven-island archipelago told reporters. “Overnight the fire and the weather behaved normally,” said Canary Islands leader Fernando Clavijo, explaining that the wind, the temperature and the behaviour of the fire on the first two nights had been “highly unusual”.
The main focal point of the fire lies some 20 kilometres away on the steeply forested slopes below, with the blaze sending clouds of ash across much of the island.
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