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Isle on fire…

The forest fire i talked about yesterday,

which was aparently controlled, was stoked up due to the high temperatures and the extreme wind that hit us last night. The municipality of Mogan got the worst part, since there have been people evacuated from their homes to avoid human casualties. Almost 60 to 70 homes have been already affected by the fire and around 2000 people evacuated. The towns of Ayacata, La Plata, Veneguera, Barranquillo de San Andrés and Cercados de Araña are within the heavily affected area.

The area burnt until yesterday was about 3500 hectares, wich should be unfortunately way over 4000 hectares. Lets hope all the firemen and all volunteers manage to extinguish it as soon as possible. :(

Some of the evacuated people shelter at the beach in ‘Mogan Playa’ were the ashes carried by the wind fall to their feet.
In Maspalomas we had 42º degrees at midnight with extreme strong wind gusts and now we are at 47º.

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5 Responses to “Isle on fire…”

  1. David Says:
    August 5th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Hello, What are the conditions now? I am staying Puerto Rico from 9/8/07 and wonder if there are areas of the island now closed due to damage?

  2. Anonymous Says:
    September 5th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    Hi Klopapier,
    We stayed on your beautiful island at Easter and will hopefully come back. We stayed in maspalomas and went a couple of time to Palmitos park, which we loved. Their website says that the park was severly affected by the fire and has closed; do you know if the parrots and animals are ok? or any other news about the park please? kind regards Jenny

  3. frank Says:
    February 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    We enjoy Gran Canaria and its people but last year we booked a trip for the Island tour ,the bus never turned up and the firm we booked through tried to say WE were late for the bus.My question is are the island tours on after the terrible fires.
    frank.

  4. E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Dramatic Weekend in Gran Canaria Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 5:08 am

    [...] I know that this weblog post is very much off topic, and you would have to excuse me for it, but if there are ever pictures out there that would be worth while 1,000 words, the following set would be those that would provide you with a intensive sense of drama, if not tragedy. For all of us: [...]

  5. frank Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    Is there anyone out there?????

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