Under control
The canarian government stated,
that the fire, though still active, is ‘under control’. It has affected 20.000 hectares and about 5000 people who start to get back to their homes progressively.
Beside the firemen/women, the emergency intervention group, civil protection and the red cross, the gando UME (military emergency unit) took also part in the extinction works with help from units from Valencia, Zaragoza and Madrid.
This has unfortunately been the worst natural disaster ever for Gran Canaria. 
Do you know where the new runway will...
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:25 am
Hey,
someone named belekas posted a comment in a language i didn’t understand. I think it was some kind of east european or russian maybe…. i dont know.
In any case, if you post a comment, please be so kind to post in english so everyone else understands it too.
Thank you.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:57 am
[...] This is probably one of the very last weblog posts that I would be creating where I would be massively linking to a number of different stories that keep popping up both from within the traditional media as well as within the Spanish Gofiosfera on the recent tragic events where one third of the entire wooded area from the island of Gran Canaria is now gone after the fires have all been under control. And a similar situation, thank goodness, is starting to emerge in Tenerife. [...]