Thousands evacuated on Spain's Tenerife as summer wildfire re-ignites

FILE PHOTO: A firefighter plane discharges water over Guimar, as wildfires rage out of control on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) - Authorities on the Spanish island of Tenerife evacuated some 3,000 people from their homes overnight as a wildfire sparked by high temperatures and strong winds raged in a forested area already ravaged by fire in August.

Emergency services said on Thursday on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, they had requested assistance from the army's Military Emergency Unit, citing the blaze, which ignited on Wednesday, as a high level emergency.