Canary Islands wildfire is now stabilized, but firefighters remain watchful

Before-After-Tenerife Combination of satellite images shows the island of Tenerife before and during the wildfire

Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Important Takeaways:

  • Tenerife firefighters stabilize huge wildfire after nine days
  • Firefighters have stabilized a huge wildfire that has burned for 10 days on Tenerife, ravaging thousands of acres of woodland on the largest of the Canary Islands, authorities said late on Thursday.
  • There was a risk that hotspots inside the fire’s perimeter, which spread to around 90 km (56 miles), could still reignite, “especially in the central hours of the day,” the island’s emergency services said on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Teams were working to contain those.
  • The fire, which started on Aug. 15, has destroyed about 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres)
  • Elsewhere in Europe, firefighters have been tackling devastating blazes in Greece, Italy and Portugal, driven by searing temperatures and dry and windy conditions…

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