Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE) dozen houses affected, while ten aerial means have been mobilized and 300 troops on the ground try to contain the flames.
In the morning some 500 people were evacuated, but after noon the residents of the population center of Tijarafe were also evicted, the Emergency Coordination Center reported.
For the evicted people, the Severo Rodríguez de Los Llanos de Aridane municipal pavilion has been set up, where at the moment some 25 people are cared for by the Red Cross.
For the first time, the ES-Alert system to alert the population has been used in the Canary Islands, which is known as inverse 1-1-2, sending a message to all mobile terminals that are in the area to be evacuated, between the neighborhoods of Timizara, Aguatavar, Zona del Pinar and the urban center of Tijarafe.
The 112 defines the fire as “interface and forest that has evolved into interface”, that is, that forest areas coincide with human settlements, and affects crops, scrub and pine trees, with an affected area of more than 2,000 hectares.
The fire affects the municipalities of Puntagorda and Tijarafe and the head of the fire is directed to the town of Tijarafe with a fairly wide front.
More than a dozen houses have been affected by the flames and it has been necessary to carry out the eviction of several hundred people in a preventive manner, without registering personal injuries.
The Puntagorda municipality residence for the elderly is confined, awaiting the evolution of the fire.
The fire is at level 2 of severity, which means that its management is the responsibility of the Government of the Canary Islands, in application of the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Attention for Forest Fires in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (INFOCA).
The Cabildo de La Palma has closed the insular network of trails, as well as access and transit to forest tracks located in areas at high risk of fires and in mountains of public utility, which are reserved for surveillance, prevention and extinction services of fires.
Festive, recreational, sporting or similar events planned throughout the island organized by any administration have been suspended, as has the use of fire in any agricultural activity.
On land, some 300 members of the Cabildo de La Palma, Brif of the Ministry, EIRIF of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fire Brigade of La Palma, Emergency Service of the Canary Islands (SUC), Canarian Police, Civil Guard, Local Police, Red Cross, Fire Brigade of Tenerife intervene. , Military Emergency Unit (UME) and Land Unit and Advanced Command Post (Drago 01) of the Emergency and Rescue Group of the Government of the Canary Islands, as well as Civil Protection volunteers.
It is expected that up to ten air vehicles from different administrations will participate: three helicopters and a State Air Tractor cargo plane on the ground, three helicopters from the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) of the Government of the Canary Islands, a helicopter from the Cabildo de Tenerife and another from Gran Canaria and a Civil Guard helicopter in air coordination tasks.
Two FOCA seaplanes from the Ministry have also been activated, based on the Peninsula.
The municipalities of Puntagorda, El Paso, Tijarafe, Los Llanos de Aridane, Breña Baja, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Tazacorte and Garafía collaborate in the deployed device.