Browsing: Tenerife

UK MORNING BRIEFING

This morning, a British couple recounted their harrowing escape from a flooded shuttle bus in Tenerife. Storm Therese has caused severe disruption across the Canary Islands, prompting emergency plans and road closures.

British tourist critically ill after misjudging jump from cliff and landing on rocks A man was seriously hurt after misjudging…

Wildfires across the world are devastating huge areas. Often humans are the culprits with campfires, cigarettes and even arson attacks. But the question is: Is there is a link to climate change as well, to drought and heatwaves?

Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day.

Hundreds of firefighters have been responding to the blaze on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife as extreme weather brings a 40-degree heatwave to Switzerland

The huge wildfire ravaging the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife that has burnt through more than 2,600 hectares of land is the “most complex” blaze to hit the Canary Islands in four decades, the regional government said Thursday.

Around 250 firefighters on Wednesday battled a wildfire raging “out of control” on Spain’s holiday island of Tenerife that forced road closures and the evacuation of five villages, officials said.

A ‘powerful’ inferno with ‘huge potential’ to spread is raging on the Spanish holiday island.

The man was knocked unconscious by a single punch.

The group of around 12 people were sent back to the UK on the next available flight.