Forest fire in Ifonche area

[Nova]

At last, and thank god!

Ditto that! 

[Janet]

This morning's good news is that the fire is now stabilized in Tágara. And now the Ayuntamientos are getting to work to draw up a clear assessment of the damage. This started yesterday in Adeje byconcejal de Infraestructuras y Servicios Municipales de Adeje, Gonzalo Delgado, and Vilaflor mayor Manuel Fumero says that it can be undertaken in Vilaflor. Guía de Isora has still to extinguish the last remaining active fire in Tágara so will be last to start the works, and municipal sources say that it will take a few days for them to be in a position to create a global report on environmental and agricultural damage in the area. JA

[Janet]

Efforts now are concentrated in cooling the hot points, particularly the Tágara barranco, and Cabildo forestry brigades are maintaining vigilance in Vilaflor and Guía de Isora until these fires are completely put out. The authorities say, however, that it will be weeks until the fire can be said to be completely extinguished.

[Perikles]

Piccies from El País here

[Janet]

As of late last night, after another intensive day of firefighting, the fire is now officially under control in Tágara. Guía de Isora mayor Pedro Martín said that teams were now on extreme watch in case any hotspots break out again. The mayor said that he was confident the fire will be completely extinguished in the barranco forest this week. Canarian Government Vice President José Miguel Pérez and Tenerife Cabildo Environment Councillor Ana Guadalupe Mora are expected to meet the mayors of the three municipalities affected later today to evaluate the damage.

Mayor Martín said that the the fire had caused damage to the hydraulic infrastructure in Guía de Isora, and that yesterday works were carried out to avoid cuts to supplies in Guía de Isora town and in Chirche.

The Tenerife Cabildo said that President Ricardo Melchior visited the affected area yesterday and personally thanked the firefighters for their efforts. Sr Melchior also stressed that the most important thing was that nobody had been injured, and that the public had acted with a real civic ethos. He was at pains to emphasize that during this period of high temperatures, and indeed at all times, the public must take extreme care to avoid fires. He reiterated, finally, that despite the weather cooling slightly and the success at fighting the fire, the ban on using BBQ areas remained in place. JA

[Janet]

 I've just been sent a link to a lovely blog that I'd previously been unaware of: it's tenerifenaturewalks, and there are some incredible and very sad pictures in the most recent post HERE of the Barranco de Tágara as of yesterday.

[NAH]

I saw some piccies the other day of 'Boca de Tauce' is that anywhere near?...It had been ravaged by fire so it must be somewhere close, but I just don't know how close.

[Janet]

They're really quite close. I've added the names in red to the map below. In reality, the barranco de Tágara goes down quite close to Chirche, much closer than the map shows.

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[NAH]

This is just one that was posted by a friend on Facebook, so is already in the public domain.