LA GOMERA, Spain: Firefighters made strides yesterday against wildfires on Spain’s Canary Islands that charred parts of a protected forest, but with a heatwave forecast the country was on alert for more blazes.
A fire on the island of La Gomera has since Saturday affected over 3,000 hectares, including 350 hectares or about 10 percent of the Garajonay national park, a World Heritage site.
But thanks to lower temperatures and higher air humidity on Tuesday, “the work to put out the fire has produced good results,” the regional government of the Canaries said Tuesday in a statement.
Fog prevented the authorities from deploying water-dropping aircraft against the blaze on Tuesday morning but during the afternoon two helicopters and three planes were battling the flames.
Firefighters beat back Canary Islands blaze, Spain on alert
