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Home Your Photos Events / Partys Radio Tonight Leisure General Infos Opportunities Guestbook actual Temperature: Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria powered by: Mogan Video Click here!!	Impress Once again puertorico-tonight.com has to step a little bit out of what we should report(the nightlife) and before everyone start getting wrong information or not precise commentaries, we would like to inform you in this section about what you´ve probably hear on the news these coupple of days. Around 2.00 pm last Friday 27th of July appears on the news that a fire was found on the middle of the Island of Gran Canaria, then when the Coordination Center receive that alert, the protocol of fighting the fire by the Authorities in Gran Canaria started inmediatly. Not only Firemen where call on duty but also part of the Army, Guardia Civil, National Police,Civil Protection, Helicopters and so on. map from Canarias7.es On Saturday the 28th of July the news were that even with the high temperatures that we have been suffering those days (around 40ºC) the fire was very active but only burning trees on the forrest on the center of Gran Canaria, not houses or touristic resources where affected so far. Also on that day the police (Guardia Civil) arrested the person who declare himself guilty that he set up the fire on porpuse. picture from Canarias7.es Late on Sunday the 29th late in the night (2 days after the fire started) around 9.00 pm the Authorities announced that in the folowing hours was very possible that the fire, that already had 4 important locations, would be on control and on a later stage will be extingished, so according all the official info it was only a matter of hours the stopping of such a catastrophe. picture from Canarias7.es Well the worst was only to come, on the early hours of the Monday the 30th before sunrise (3 days after the fire start) the weather conditions changed and the very strong hot wind (with speed over 70 Km/h ) start blowing constantly and the temperature reach 45ºC, so it make it impossible for the 10 helicopter that were stingishing the fire to fly. So here it comes the big drama that we were suffering. The fire out of control and the air media could not help. satellite picture of the fire, few hours after start. by Canarias7.es The fire reach some residences in Mogan town and at least 60 houses has been on fired, around 2.000 people has been evacuated from Mogan town to the seaside locations. But not only Mogan, this afetrnoon the fire was leading other places where people are living such us, Tasarte, Tunte, Ayagaures and so on. helicopter overflying some residences on Mogan Valley, by Canarias7.es Important to mention is that there hasn´t been any human lost so far, but only material lost full of sentimental values. On the left a view of the Aquasur in Playa del Inglés, you can see the smoke from on the top of the mountains. On the right a perspective of the fire on Sunday night, both picture from Canarias7.es Also I would like to confirm that no one tourist area or resort is on danger, and 100% of the holiday makers are having a normal holidays not only in Puerto Rico, but also in the rest of Gran Canaria. The only place that they could not visit are the top of the mountains, as the roads that lead there are close down for security. Please remember that 100% of the holiday makers are safe on destination, only the fire is on the mountains. helicopter overflyng the fire, c´mon guys. picture by Canarias7.es From puertorico-tonight.com, we would like to apreciate the value job that everyone up in the fire are doing 24 hours a day since last Friday to stop this disaster, some of them on a very serious situation of risk. From Police, to Firemen, Civil Protection, Guardia Civil, everyone on the helicopters fleet and simply to everyone trying to keep care of our beatiful island set on fire but a senseless idiot. helicopter fleet on duty. picture from Canarias7.es We would like to cover this catastrophe on the way to inform you every five minutes how is it going, but our resources are not so good as other sites. Anyway whenever there are news (good or bad) we would like to keep you updated. The most sold paper in Gran Canaria is Canarias7 and we recommend you to visit their site were they cover the situación on the same way that we would wish (only in Spanish). If you would like to have a look, then simply click here: www.canarias7.es If you would like to drop few lines to support the authorities to stop the fire, please send a e-mail to info@puertorico-tonight.com. We would appreciate that. The situation is still very dangerous but after 100 hours of working all the fire fighters are on the way first to control the fire and afterwards proceed to extinghish it. It´s been said that one third of the forrest in Gran Canaria has been burned on this fire. If the weather condition don´t get worst very probably in few hours the fire will be controlled. Pity the helicopters cannot fly on the night time. by Admin Tue 31st of July 2007 18.54 pm support messages sent to info@puertorico-tonight.com I can't believe my wonderful Gran Canaria is on fire! I have been so many times and know many people who live and work there. Coming back again 13th August. I am thinking about you all and hoping you are all safe. To the guys fighting the fires - keep up the great work you're doing a terrific job. by Sue (UK) Tue 31st of July 2007 18.57 pm The dimension of the disaster gets bigger when you count that Tenerife fire that started 2 days ago is still not on control. The following image is a satellite pictue the 2 columns of clouds above Tenerife and Gran Canaria are not such clouds, is the smoke from both fires. The helicopters cannot fly on the night time, so now is being extingished by hand. Tomorrow morning we will give you more details of the situation. Don´t forget to send your supporting e-mails to info@puertorico-tonight.com. Also you can keep yourself informed by the BBC on the following address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6923931.stm (copy and paste on your browser) Dimension of the fire in both islands. Image by Canarias7.es by Admin Tue 31st of July 2007 10.34 pm support messages sent to info@puertorico-tonight.com Just cant believe anyone would start a fire deliberately on a beautiful island like this my thoughts and best wishes for the safety of all who are risking their lives to try and get the fires under control may your god be with you malcolm muir. Malcolm Muir (UK) Wed 01st of August 2.31 pm from left to right: President of the Canary Islands Paulino Rivero, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and Home Secretary Rubalcaba on the press conference. Image by Canarias7.es Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero visit urgently Tenerife and Gran Canaria to support everyone fighting against the fire and to get informed about the situation, also he announces economic help coming all the way from the central goverments. by Admin Wed 01st of August 2.35 pm image by Canarias7.es The situation is absolutly on control, in Gran Canaria it means that the size of the fire will not increase anymore, but the fire is not completly extingished so far, that will take few hours. Also the temperature is finally dropping and the strong winds are dissapearing which makes it easy for the helicopters mission that so far where limited on their duty because the strong winds. The people that have been evacuated in Gran Canaria are slowly returning home and slowly getting adapted to the new situation as some of them has lost absolutly everything. There´s only tears for them. On the other island Tenerife where last night the fire was dangerously increasing, today the situation is getting better. The authorities are confident that they will control the fire in a matter of hours as the weather condition are helping much more tham for the last days. by Admin Wed 01st of August 4.35 pm simply no comments, image by BBC.CO.UK No more news so far appart the drama of the people seeing all their belongings absolutly burnt also interesting is the big wide coverage of the international media of the fire in both islands, just for an example you can watch the bbc news video on the internet. See it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6920000/newsid_6925400?redirect=6925423.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&asb=1 by Admin Wed 01st of August 7.02 pm support messages sent to info@puertorico-tonight.com I cant believe anyone in there right mind would do something like that to such a beautiful island like Gran Canaria. I have been to Gran Canaria so many times and have loved every minute!! Im returning to Gran Canaria for my 8th time and even though this has happened i no it will be just as good!! I have friends out there but im thinking of everyone, and a hugh well done to all those out there trying to stop it, all the fire services ect. Your doing a brilliant job. KEEP IT UP!! X X X X by Jenni (UK) Wed 01st of August 7.53 pm support messages sent to info@puertorico-tonight.com I am a regular visitor to the island mainly Puerto Rico and It made me very upset when I saw on the news at home that your beautiful island was on fire. It is upsetting to think that people have been evacuated from ther homes and lost personal belongings due to some mindless idiot causing the fire. I just wanted to say well done to the authorities who are doing there best for the island. And my thoughts go out out to all the people who's lifes have been affected by the fires. I look forward to visiting you all again very soon. P.S Thanks to the Puertorico-tonight team for once again keeping us all updated. Love Jackie (Scotland) xx Thu 02nd of August 8.52 pm image of the disaster in Gran Canaria, picture by Canarias7.es The fire at the moment is under control in the both island (Tenerife and Gran Canaria). Only few hours to consider them completly extingished. In Gran Canaria the face of the people returning home is a drama already, also some specialist announce that it will take at least 10 years for the forrest to reach the same amount of trees. For the last 20 years the Canarian Authorities has been proceeding to regenerate the forrest and in 3 days of fire, all their work for the past 20 years became totally useless. Also the media reports that the Authorities in Tenerife think that the fire in there was also on porpouse and very probably they already know the person who also start the fire in there. In summarize only few hours left until the fire is considered totally extingished and then will come the time for the questions, the economic help and tears.......many tears. by Admin Thu 02nd August 9.15 pm support messages sent to info@puertorico-tonight.com My thoughts go out to everyone touched by the fire.. Its been hard to watch it all from norway, just here for the summer, looking forward to going back in four weeks. The great great place i as many others love so much.. All the people i know and love and all others affected by this.. so sad to loose everything. But thank God the authorities got everyone in safety!! And thanks for covering this at your site. Kristin (Norway) Thu 02nd of August 9.57 pm La Caja de Canarias (the most important Canarian bank) has open a bank account where people can put money to start financing the recovering of all the trees that has been burnt on the last days during the fire, if you would like to cooperate the bank account is 2052-8130-20-3310077609. To start, La Caja de Canarias make a deposit of 200.000 Euros. If you would like to make an international bank transfer, tomorrow we will get informed about what the IBAN number and also the BIC numbers are. by Admin Fri 03rd August 3.20 am Good morning everyone: As you already know the Palmitos Park has been partially affected by the fire that took place in Gran Canaria from the 27th of June until the 02 of August. On our last try to save as many animals as possible few hours before the fire partially devasted Palmitos Park we did set free many animals to help them from passing away due to the fire or smoke, those animals were mostly birds. So now after the fire is gone and we are trying to recover from the partial devastation, and trying, as much as we can, to get our animals back home, and that´s where we need your help. Some of the birds are already back in the Palmitos Park but some others not. We need to find them before they die from not eating or not drinking. So if you find an strange bird in Gran Canaria is very probably one of ours and we ask you to proceed the following way: 1. Please do not get close to them (the animals are very scared already and for sure they will fly) 2. Please, do not try to feed them (each one of our animals have a strict diet and to eat something different will affect them big time) 3. Please, phone inmidiatly David Muñoz to the following phone number 627 67 11 39 to explain where and which situation you have seen the animal I, please, demand everyone to make this message to get to as many people as possible. by Palmitos Park Management on 3rd of August 2.10 pm support messages sent to info@puertorico-tonight.com Can I pass on my whole hearted sympathy to the residents of Gran Canaria who are the most loving and welcoming of people. I have been to Gran Canaria (Mainly Puerto Rico) many many times and love the island and its people and to watch what some mindless mad person could cause is beyond me. This island will recover with the will of the people of Gran Canaria and the only way I can show my support is to keep coming back to such a beautiful place and keep reminding my family and friends what a special place Cran canaria is and always will be. To all the people of Gran Canaria we are thinking of you and to the Rescue Service…………..I have nothing but praise and admiration for you to tackle and handle something of this scale in such heat as 45 degrees plus!! And thank you to Puerto Rico Tonight for giving me the chance to show my support to the people of Gran Canaria! Regards and Best Wishes Craig Adshead (UK - Manchester) 4th of August 8.04 am message sent to puertorico-tonight.com guestbook We would like to thank you for putting the information on the fire up on the website because now me and my freinds feel much better knowing that everything is getting under control i don't know how anyone could ever do such a thing,i hope he gets a long strech in prison for doin this and i send all my love and support to everybody who is doin their best to put an end to this nightmare all the best from Dublin Lisa,Jade,Emma & Jackie(Dublin, Ireland) 5th of August 11.43 pm The nightmare is totally finished now, it took 5 days (from Fri 27th until Tue 31st) of intensive work to all the people in charged of extingished the fire but they have finally managed. Now the reality is slapping everyone faces, returning to the daily life with almost nothing. Also a very important mention to the heroes that have been risking their own life for finishing the job: Guardia Civil, National Police, Local Police, Civil Protection, Firemen, Army, Helicopters crew and all that at any time on any way has been helping to save the Island, as much as they could, THANK YOU SO MUCH. Also from puertorico-tonight.com and from the entire Gran Canaria and of course from Tenerife, thanks to all of you for showing us your concern and sorrow for the last days for this tremendous catastrophe, via e-mail or message on the guestbook. We do appreciate your words of support. Once again Internet is the tool for sharing human feelings more that a high tech instrument. Back to the basic. We are really sorry if at anytime our coverage of this catastrophe was not satisfying your needs of information, but please understand that puertorico-tonight.com structure is not like a newspaper one. Anyway we have tried as usual to do our best. Please, feel free to keep sending your messages to info@puertorico-tonight.com about the fire and consecuences and then again thank to you so, so much. by Admin on 5th of August 0.13 am
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