Tenerife firefighters stabilise huge wildfire after nine days

Firefighters have stabilised a huge wildfire that has burned for 10 days on Tenerife, ravaging thousands of acres of woodland on the largest of the Canary Islands.
There was a risk that hotspots inside the fire’s perimeter, which spread to around 90 km (56 miles), could still reignite, “especially in the central hours of the day,” the island’s emergency services said on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Teams were working to contain those.
The fire, which started on Aug. 15, has destroyed about 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of woodland within the national park surrounding the Mount Teide volcano, Spain’s highest peak.
It forced the evacuation of some 13,000 people, most of whom have since been allowed to return home. Canarian authorities have described it as the archipelago’s worst ever wildfire.
Elsewhere in Europe, firefighters have been tackling devastating blazes in Greece, Italy and Portugal, driven by searing temperatures and dry and windy conditions that scientists have linked to climate change.