Thousands More Evacuated as Tenerife Fire Rages on Spain’s Canary Islands

Thousands More Evacuated as Tenerife Fire Rages on Spain’s Canary Islands
Flares on the horizon as the fire advances through the forest toward the town of La Laguna and Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, on Aug. 19, 2023. Arturo Rodriguez/AP Photo
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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands—Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day.

The regional government for the Canary Islands said that 4,000 more people were ordered to evacuate on Saturday. Those were in addition to the 4,500 people who on Friday were forced to move out of harm’s way on the Atlantic island that is home to around a million people and is also a popular tourist destination.