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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Desiree Martin/AFP/Getty Images Cooler temperatures and favourable winds are helping firefighters tackle an 11-day-old fire raging on the Canary Island of La Gomera, Spanish authorities said on Wednesday. The forest fire is among the worst to have...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Fire on the Canary Islands has forced 180 residents in La Gomera to flee and scorched nearly 9,000 acres, or 11 percent of the island's surface, officials said. Overnight weather conditions helped keep flames from spreading and only one active fire...
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Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
Forest fires on the holiday island of Tenerife have finally been brought under control, but firefighters continue to battle the blaze in La Gomera, with further evacuations yesterday. Another 1,000 residents have been told to leave the area of...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 9 months ago
Spain's Canary Islands after a separate mainland blaze killed two, authorities say. Firefighters struggled to control the flames that engulfed the wooded hillsides on the island of La Gomera, reducing lush green trees to black dust, spewing grey...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Articles The fires have destroyed more than 10,000 acres of land on Tenerife and La Gomera -- roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) off the coast of Morocco -- since they first broke out more than a week ago. At least 5,000 people were forced out of...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Desiree Martin/AFP/Getty Images More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from La Gomera, one of the smallest Canary Islands, as forest fires that began nine days ago continue to burn out of control. Nearly 2,000 acres of the Garajonay national park...
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Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
13 August 2012 The Foreign Office today warned British holidaymakers of the dangers of wildfires which have forced thousands of people from their homes in the Canary Islands...Hundreds of firefighters using helicopters and planes were continuing to...
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Typically Spanish
| 9 months ago
A quarter part of the population of the Canary Island of La Gomera have had to be evacuated A quarter part of the population of the Canary Island of La Gomera, some 5,000 of the population of just over 20,000, have had to be evacuated away from the...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
52 Locals evacuated from Valle Gran Rey as authorities feared fires in surrounding hills could engulf the town [Reuters] Wildfires have killed two people in southeastern Spain and forced thousands to evacuate in the Canary Islands where flames...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Fires are raging across Gomera and Tenerfie (Reuters) Wildfires raging across two Canary Islands have prompted a mass evacuation of thousands of residents and tourists from 18 towns and villages. Five thousand people have fled to safety in La Gomera...
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The Independent
| 9 months ago
Britons are being urged to stay in touch with the Foreign Office as wildfires rage in the Canary Islands, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. Fires on the Canary islands of La Gomera and Tenerife, a favourite of UK holidaymakers, have...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Spain has claimed a second fatality after a firefighter died in hospital on Monday. One of his colleagues had been killed on Sunday, and two others were injured while battling flames in La Torre de les Macanes near Alicante. More than 100 children...
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The Herald Times
| 9 months ago
Flames are threatening some of Europe's oldest surviving forests in the Garajonay National Park in La Gomera and have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people across the country this summer. Also Sunday, a wildfire started in the Larnaca district...
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Al Jazeera English
| 9 months ago
25 The government says 132,300 hectares of land have been burnt so far this year with blazes across the country [AFP] One person has been killed and three injured as firefighters battled wildfires across Spain, authorities say, the latest victims in...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
25 The government says 132,300 hectares of land have been burnt so far this year with blazes across the country [AFP] One person has been killed and three injured as firefighters battled wildfires across Spain, authorities say, the latest victims in...
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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
Thousands of people fled wildfires raging yesterday on the Spanish Canary islands, where a World Heritage site remains under threat, while rain helped douse a fire in Greece near another protected site. Elderly villagers in Spain spent the night in...
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News 24
| 9 months ago
Wildfires that drove thousands from their homes raged uncontrolled Sunday at a World Heritage park on Spain's Canary Islands, while in Greece rain helped douse a fire near another protected site. In Spain elderly villagers spent the night in hotels...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Associated Press Wildfires advance on residential areas in La Gomera, Spain, threatening some of Europe's oldest surviving forests. Photograph: Andres Gutierrez/Associated Press Wildfires have forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and on...
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Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
Water-carrier aircraft flew missions as fresh blazes raged in the La Gomera's Garajonay nature reserve, home to rare subtropical forests which have around 450 plant species...About a tenth of the reserve has been ravaged as the heatwave which began...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
World Heritage park on Spain's Canary Islands, while in Greece rain helped douse a fire near another protected site. In Spain elderly villagers spent the night in hotels and student halls after thousands of people fled fires on the Atlantic islands...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Fires on the Canary islands of La Gomera and Tenerife have forced the evacuation of more than 4,000 residents as a precautionary measure, the regional government said Sunday.
Casimimo Curbelo, local government leader of La Gomera, said:...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Fresh fires blaze on Spain's Canary Islands Firefighters had thought they had brought the blaze threatening a reserve on La Gomera under control Spanish firefighting teams in the Canary Islands are struggling anew to contain forest fires said to have...
