The Cabildo de La Palma has reported that a helicopter from the Government of the Canary Islands is acting against the reactivation of the fire in La Palma, within the La Caldera de Taburiente National Park, while four other aerial means have been activated that are on the way.
Two of the additional helicopters have departed from Tenerife and the other two are from the Brif of La Palma, which had traveled to Gran Canaria and are back, reported the president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Sergio Rodríguez.
The area where the fire has been reactivated is difficult to access for terrestrial means, so that only the fire is being attacked from the air.
The president of the Cabildo de La Palma has indicated that the forest fire is “boxed in” and that the column of smoke is directed “towards the previously burned area and it seems that there is a thermal inversion that is taking the smoke to the east side, which which is good news within the bad”.
At this time, he has indicated that a GES helicopter from the Canary Islands government is operating, which has carried out “several drops on the west flank”, and four more air means are activated, which “are on their way”.
Likewise, he pointed out that the area where action is being taken “is complicated” from the orographic point of view, for which reason he qualified that the ground personnel “are displaced but will not be able to act if they do not advance to more” safe positions from the fire.
At the moment, he pointed out, the “only positive” is that the weather “is not bad, there is no wind, visibility is allowing the air environment to act and we have to wait for developments.”
After the reactivation of the fire, the Cabildo de La Palma has ordered the evacuation of the hamlet of La Hacienda del Cura, in the La Palma municipality of El Paso, where there are no people staying and the access road to Los Brecitos remains closed.
