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Wildfire in Gran Canaria forces home evacuations

By Cathy Elelman • Published: 11 Aug 2019 • 10:17

A WILDFIRE raging in Gran Canaria has forced evacuations from a dozen areas.

Hundreds of residents of parts of Tejada, Artenera and Galdar had to get out of their homes on Saturday night as a preventative measure and roads have been closed.

The blaze started up in Artenara at midday on Saturday and by this morning had been classified as a level two danger and had affected at least 900 hectares on the island’s summit, the 112 emergency service reported on Twitter.

Given the seriousness of the situation the Canary Island government called for assistance from the Emergencies Military Unit, which has sent in about 30 personnel and eight support vehicles.

Meanwhile, the Guardia Civil has detained a 55-year old man from Telde suspected of unwittingly sparking the fire by using a welding machine at a property in the Las Peñas area, Spanish media reported.

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Cathy Elelman

Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.

Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.

Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.

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