Thousands more evacuated as Tenerife fire rages on Spain's Canary Islands
Source: AP
By ARTURO RODRÍGUEZ and JOSEPH WILSON
Updated 1:34 PM CDT, August 19, 2023
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — 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.
The regional government for the Canary Islands said that 4,000 more people were ordered to evacuate on Saturday. Those were in addition to the 4,500 people who on Friday were forced to move out of harm’s way on the Atlantic island that is home to around a million people and is also a popular tourist destination.
That figure of more than 8,000 evacuees is expected to rise, and perhaps sharply.
The Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, just like most of mainland Spain. The islands have recorded below-average rainfall in recent years because of changing weather patterns impacted by climate change.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/spain-wildfire-tenerife-climate-canary-islands-heat-29397d0e8a5ce7c3e4162280b553c06e
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A volcano erupted on one of the Canary Islands not long ago.
With so many fires, a hurricane on the West Coast, and so many crazy events, I feel like we are watching the end of climate change, not the beginning or middle 
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