US EditionThousands Evacuated From Spanish Resort of Tarifa over Advancing Fire
ANDALUSIA, SPAIN, AUG 11 – More than 3,700 residents, visitors, and hotel workers were evacuated as wildfires consumed 283 hectares amid Spain's worst wildfire season in recent years, officials said.
- On Monday, authorities began preventive evacuation of homes in Tarifa, impacting 1,500 locals and visitors near Playa de Atlanterra and Playa de Bolonia, as fires advanced.
- Faced with massive wildfires, Spain's Ecological Transition Ministry reported around 39,155 hectares burned between 1 January and 3 August this year.
- More than 100 troops, including four firefighting brigades, evacuated workers and guests of Cortijo and Meliá Zahara hotels, plus around 1,500 in La Peña area, on Monday.
- On Monday, the Guardia Civil asked evacuees to leave by the beach, as residents in Montaña de Los Alemanes and Sierra de la Plata were also evacuated as a precaution.
- Notably, local authorities declared two days ago that a previous fire had been extinguished, even as the region surrounding Tarifa faced another forest fire less than a week earlier.
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Over 2000 people had to be brought to safety, including many German tourists. Watch the video of the extensive evacuations.
Thousands evacuated from Spanish resort of Tarifa over advancing fire
Despite the efforts of emergency teams to control the fire that has been raging across some areas in southern Spain, authorities have been forced to order the eviction of several houses in the municipality of Tarifa near Cadiz.
The heat wave that strikes Spain does not give respite. Dozens of fires are active throughout the country. A new focus has been declared in the afternoon of this Monday at the Sierra de la Plata site, in Tarifa (Cádiz), which has caused the eviction of 2,000 residents of the area. In a similar situation they are in León, since some 1,700 inhabitants of seven municipalities have also been evacuated after the fire in Molezuelas de Carballeda (Zamo…
The forest fire declared this Monday in Tarifa (Cádiz) and that forced to evacuate more than 2,000 people from the areas of beaches and hotels of Atlanterra and the beach of the Germans has been intentionally provoked, as pointed out this Tuesday the councillor of the Presidency of the Junta of Andalusia, Antonio Sanz.In ... Continue reading "The Board believes that the fire in Tarifa has been "intentional": "They wanted to hurt"
News of the Day and the Hour Latest News of the day Follow all the news of the active fires in the country. More than two thousand evacuated in Zamora and Leon by the fire that razes thousands of hectares by INFOBAE The forest fire of Tarifa (Cadiz) is intended A helicopter works in the work of extinction of the fire. (EFE/Román Ríos) The forest fire declared on the afternoon of this Monday in the Sierra de la Plata, in Tarifa (Cadiz), which fo…
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