11,000 evacuated in Canary Islands fires

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AP news, reported by IHT:

"SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain: More than 11,000 people were evacuated in the Canary Islands Tuesday as firefighters struggled to extinguish fires on two of the archipelago's popular tourist islands.

About 6,000 people were evacuated from homes on Tenerife, where 4,500 hectares (11,115 acres) of forest on the western part of the island have burned since Monday, said Paulino Rivero, the president of the Canary Islands regional government.

He described the situation as 'dramatic.'"

AP, International Herald Tribune, 31 July 2007, here: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/31/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Forest-Fires.php