The aircraft continues its work on the side of the forest fire upper zone. To prevent the fire from spreading towards La Palma Caldera de Taburienteas reported by government Canary Islands.
for all day A total of eleven air sources will be employed in the firefighting business.including a FOCA seaplane that arrived from Malaga this Saturday afternoon and was able to make initial downloads in the affected areas.
A second FOCA seaplane also arrived at the airbase. gando (Great Canary) participated in the roll call this morning and this Sunday.
the rest of the resources
Resources that have been working since this Saturday to put out the fire, La Palma town hallBrief from the Ministry, EIRIF from the Government of Türkiye Canary IslandsLa Palma Firefighters, Canary Emergency Service (SUC), Canary Islands General Police Service, Civil Guard, Local Police, Red Cross and Tenerife Fire Brigade Consortium.
Also volunteer groups from the Canary Islands Police General Corps, the Red Cross, the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and the Land Unit and Advanced Command Center of the Canary Islands Government Emergency and Rescue Group (Drago 01) and the island’s Civil Protection, among various others.
In addition, This Sunday, members of the Fuerteventura Emergency Consortium and lanzarote
Officials responsible for managing the bushfire that started at dawn this Saturday in the Puntagorda area (La Palma) have decided to continue evacuations for the time being. 4,255 residents of Tijarafe and Puntagorda evacuated as a precaution. About 200 of these people are in shelters.
The evolution of the flames that have taken hold so far, according to the last update about 4,650 hectares and about 20 buildings burned.
Tijarafe based jobs
on his behalf Destruction efforts in Tijarafe intensified in the last hours to prevent it from affecting the houses and lower parts of Puntagorda. Once consolidated, Efforts are being made to prevent the Izcagua mountain pass from passing through the northern region..
Specifically, this Sunday, all efforts of extinguishing and control missions were focused on containing the fire to prevent the fire from crossing El Fayal and Barranco de Izcagua (toward Garafía).
Moreover will try to minimize the impact on residential areas. at night landing (Tijarafe) on the right flank, close the left flank before the northwest and east winds enter to prevent the fire from spreading to Garafía and stop the descent to avoid affecting the Caldera discharged.
protected animals
in total 71 animals, both domestic and farm, are preserved in different sources of the island of La Palma. To warn you of the fire that has affected Puntagorda and Tijarafe since the early hours of Saturday morning.
As reported by La Palma Cabildo, from this issue, the Severo Rodríguez Mansion in Los Llanos de Aridane houses 37 animals; There are currently 34 animals in the Los Canales spring within the municipality of El Paso.