Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day.
The regional government for the Canary Islands said that 4,000 more people were ordered to evacuate on Saturday. Those were in addition to the 4,500 people who on Friday were forced to move out of harm's way on the Atlantic island that is home to around a million people and is also a popular tourist destination.The Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, just like most of mainland Spain.
The Tenerife fire comes as Spain's mainland is bracing for another heat wave. Spain's state weather service issued a warning Saturday that temperatures would be on the rise in the coming days, hitting 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the mainland. The regional government said that “the fire is beyond our capacity to extinguish it” due to hot and dry conditions and high winds that have fanned the huge flames. Firefighters have been unable to establish a perimeter around the blaze that has consumed at least 5,000 hectares
The regional chief of the archipelago, Fernando Clavijo, said that police are investigating the cause of the fire.
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