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Canary Islands placed on 'red alert' as scorching heatwave poses wildfire risk

Summary by Chronicle Live
Temperatures could exceed 38C in parts of Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria as the extreme heat is accompanied by dust blown in from the Sahara Desert

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The south-east is on maximum alert against the risk of fire, Wednesday, July 16. Three departments are on red alert, including Bouches-du-Rhône, severely affected by the flames last week. Reporting on the spot, where hundreds of firefighters are mobilized, and the inhabitants are living a day of anxiety.

"This wave of heat is very strong, it is exhausting, I can't stand myself." Soledad Santana's words describe almost perfectly the sensation that many grancanarios have during these days of high temperatures, with values that have exceeded 40 degrees in some points of the island geography, but she has a trick to combat this very overwhelming climate: sheltering in the shadow of the ficus that presides over the promenade of El Pajar.

Discover the weather forecast for the weekend. Gran Canaria remains in red warning of the Aemet with forecast to exceed 42 degrees

Madrid, 17 Jul (EFE).- Nine communities -Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Community of Madrid, Navarra, La Rioja, Canary Islands, Region of Murcia and the Valencian Community - continue this Thursday with warning for high temperatures with special incidence in the Canary archipelago, where Gran Canaria has red alert (extreme risk) for maximum 40 degrees. The suffocating heat will affect the Canary archipelago where there is red warning in …

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Chronicle Live broke the news in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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