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0:59Now PlayingAbout 250 firefighters in the Canary Islands are working to control the blaze that has ignited in Tenerife. Roads have been blocked, and thousands of people have now been evacuated.
A wildfire in a mountainous national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife has rapidly expanded to become the "most complex" blaze to hit the Canary Islands in four decades, the regional government said on Thursday.
Hundreds of firefighters are trying to bring the fire under control.
How big is the blaze?
The fire has grown to cover an area of 2,600 hectares (6,425 acres) since breaking out on Wednesday on Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands.
The blaze has now extended across 31 kilometers (19 miles) of dry woodland, engulfing both sides of Mount Teide, Spain's tallest peak.
"The night has been very tough...this is the most complex fire we've had in the Canary Islands in the last 40 years," regional leader, Fernando Clavijo, told a news conference.
At an earlier press briefing in the island's capital, Santa Cruz, Clavijo said that the wildfire was spiraling "out of control," and the situation is dangerous.
Clavijo said that despite challenging weather conditions, he was confident that efforts to extinguish the blaze would pay off in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
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