14,000 Evacuated in Canary Island Fires

AP Online | July 31, 2007 | Copyright

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain - At least 14,000 people have evacuated homes, hotels and campgrounds on the Canary Islands as firefighters struggled Tuesday to extinguish fires on two of the archipelago's popular tourist spots.

About 8,800 people were displaced on Tenerife island, where fires have burned 37,500 acres of mainly forest and destroyed 900 homes since Friday, the Canary Islands regional government said. On Gran Canaria island, some 25,000 acres of woodland were charred, and 5,200 people evacuated as at least 60 homes were engulfed by flames.

No one has been reported injured. ...

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