The blaze in the Canary Island of Tenerife is said to have been started deliberately.
Major wildfires are burning in Greece and on Tenerife, one of Spain’s Canary Islands off the north-west coast of Africa.
In Greece, authorities ordered the evacuation of two villages in the central Viotia region, about 100 60 miles north-west of Athens, after a forest fire broke out on Monday morning. Authorities said the body of a man was recovered from a sheep pen in the area under evacuation, with local media reporting the man apparently died of smoke inhalation while trying to save his livestock.
Cyprus is sending two firefighting aircraft to help tackle the Alexandroupolis blaze, including four crew and five ground support staff.With gale-force winds blowing in several parts of the country, authorities set the fire risk level in several regions, including that of the Greek capital, to “extreme”.
The deadliest Greek wildfire on record killed 104 people in 2018, in a seaside resort near Athens that residents had not been warned to evacuate. Since then, authorities have erred on the side of caution, issuing swift mass evacuation orders whenever inhabited areas are under threat.People watch the flames during a wildfire near the north-eastern town of Alexandroupolis
More than 12,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and nearly 13,000 hectares of pine forest and scrubland have burned.Canary Island regional President Fernando Clavijo told Spain’s Cadena SER radio “the worst is over”, adding that the hundreds of firefighters deployed had made some progress for the second night in a row.
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