Forest Fire Destroys Thirty-Five Hectares of Pine Forest in North Tenerife

Photo: Diario de TenerifeAt lunch time yesterday, Monday, the flames were finally extinguished in a fire which had started at 17:25 on Sunday, at three points of the forests between Los Realejos and San Juan de la Rambla in the north of Tenerife.

Three helicopters, 60 people and a dozen vehicles had fought to bring the fire, one of the most devastating in recent times, under control for 19 hours.

The fact that the fire had three separate points of origin, at considerable distances apart - which presented the major difficulty in bringing it under control - seems to suggest that it was started deliberately.

Wladimiro Rodríguez Brito, councillor for the Environment with the Tenerife Island Corporation, did not hesitate to classify person(s) who destroy the landscape to let out their own frustrations as "sick".

Los servicios del Cabildo tratan de controlar el tercer frente del incendio de Los realejos
El fuego destruye unas 35 hectáreas de pinar en el norte tinerfeño en 19 horas