Tenerife firefighters stabilise huge wildfire after nine days

EIRIF forest firefighters work during the extinction of the forest fire in Arafo on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Borja Suarez/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) - 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, authorities said late on Thursday.

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.