The fire that raged over the mountains for six days Tenerife, V Canary Islands Spain) Its progress has slowed and, if weather conditions remain positive, it may stabilize in the next few hours, although the affected area will be announced”catastrophic zone‘.

This improvement in the situation meant that evacuations, by order of the General Directorate of Emergency Situations of the Government of the Canary Islands, were stopped in areas that were evicted in arafo and in the part of nuclei affected by the same measure in the municipality of Rose garden.

However, the fire continues to devour hectares: at last count, 13,383 hectares with a perimeter 90 kilometers.

Figures that give a measure of the environmental tragedy, which for the moment has not resulted in loss of life or the destruction of houses, but only in tools on some farms, as emphasized by the President of Tenerife Cabildo, Rosa Davila, during the visit of the Acting Chief Executive of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, to the forward command post at Arafo.

Sanchez announced that once the fire is declared under control, the Council of Ministers will approve the declaration of the area severely affected by the civil protection emergency, which is colloquially known as the “catastrophe zone”.

He ensured that the government would “engage” in the reconstruction of the affected areas and in helping the people affected by the fire, as it is doing now during the extinguishing work in a “complete, resolute, absolute” manner, and He declared that “the whole of Spain with the Canary Islands and with Tenerife.

Sanchez had words of solidarity with people evacuated from their homes who had to leave “not knowing if they could come back in a few days” and find everything “as they left it”.

Currently open front Isana, inside Teide National Parkand in the south.