Tenerife details are exposing a new environment after 2008 fires near mount Teide.

Tenerife details of fire damage were revealed in these photos taken around October 2007 after the fires on the island. It almost hurts to see Tenerife exposed to the elements like that after the fires around el Tanque Teno mountain slopes, just above Buena Vista del Norte.

We know that not all of el Tanque was hit by the fires.

Some land was less exposed. Green patches may be noticed in between.

The next 2 Tenerife pictures show mount Teide with burned Tenerife bushland as well as singed pines by a road side in Valle de Arriba.

This is an equally sorrow
sight left
behind by flames.

Burned weather exposed pines by a roadside not far off Spain's highest peak Mount Teide. You may see the country in this region as it looked before the fire, here.

Here again, mount Teide is in the background.

The next 2 photos will
also reveal fire harm.

Flames have destroyed a few
houses in Masca which is an Alice in wonderland spot but, most lonely mountain village in Tenerife Island. It's hugged by overgrown mountains and bare menacing looking cliffs which separate it from its bay by the shore in the Teno region.

Here is just one detail
of burned buildings in
Masca. Sometimes I get mixed up and spell Mazca which is not correct.

Masca and its surroundings within the most western mountains of Tenerife called Teno were
off limits to

Tenerife climbing and hiking fans for
a while. Its mountain paths with extraordinary views are not always easy to enjoy. One constantly has to mind where to set foot between natural stone rubble as the main access to the top of the cliff is rather a goat or rabbit highway.

There obviously is landslide danger when the rains are coming. We can see how exposed much of the land is, here too.

But, on the other hand, rains will also heal the land in Masca and all over Tenerife's mountain regions that suffered during the flames of the vicious Tenerife fires.

Let me tell you that many
people hold their breath
when steering their car down the
narrow roads into Masca which have been improved, though, with better stop points in bents where to wait up on passing large vehicles such as buses as reported by a friend of mine who went there, recently.

Not only mountain slopes and cliffs of Masca are spectacular Tenerife details after the wildfires in Tenerife but, its steep gorges as well.

Some of the palm tops are still green. 'A ver' (we shall see) as the Spanish say... Future will show how well the tropical and, subtropical part of Masca will recapture its former romantic movie appeal.

In fact, by spring 2008 promising Tenerife details with photos by Tenerife News were following these sad pictures. Many healthy new shoots could, then, be seen pushing through on the trunks of pines by the force of genes of indigenous plants and with the help of spring hormones.

Also, typical heaps of dry branches were shown which were to serve as rain run-off barriers to protect against soil erosion.

It was said in the newspaper that such preventions were, indeed, put up in all landslide vulnerable areas in the pine forests where fires had raced through.

The 'alert' to keep eyes out in the island's forests will not stop.

A hill
near the rugged alpinists' paradise

still shows a rather uninviting landscape in detail.

No rain washed off
anything in this Teno mountain range, yet.

The exposed spot sure looks
like a detail of lost
undergrowth and low plants
which would have prevented earth slides after heavy rain.

One may wonder if a protective dry timber branch heap has been forgotten, here.

They look like singed corn to me.

But, it could be
sugar cane, just as well.

Yes, many farmers will not see
the next harvest.

The island media had reported
on many Tenerife details of heavy financial losses in many highland farm communities.

By the road from Masca going into
the district town of the province Santiago del Teide which carries the same name
Santiago del Teideare mountain slopes deprived of their protective greenery since the Tenerife fires.

The rest of the country side near the town was not much exposed to flames.

Photos may, of course, don't show everything.

From Santiago del Teide it takes only a few minutes to get to Los Gigantes where all the colorful details of Tenerife beaches were mocking all flames together with the town of the giant cliffs.

All photos were given to me by my friend César Francisco Real Real, by the way.

Tenerife details news on Tenerife fires:
Some great Spanish news whose essence may prevent an equal natural catastrophy with nasty Tenerife details of farm sorrow and burned environment as caused by wildfires on the island last July/August were made public in the media on March 26, 2008, a date which should be duly marked in Tenerife history Santa Cruz because, Los Rodeos which is close to the capital will play a major role from now on besides providing one of most important Spanish airports.

Perhaps, Los Rodeos was also chosen because of the great Tenerife crash caused there by 2 colliding jumbos where hundreds lost their life during poor visibility and some hard to judge upon other particularities.

The good news are a relief and must be the best detail on this page because, urgent outside help was taking time to come during the fires.

Finally, Tenerife has its own EMU (emergency unit) which arrived at Los Rodeos airport where the 77 member unit will be stationed on stand by.

What is remarkable also is that Señor Salvador Garcia who presented the unit to all relevant island dignities spelled out that the unit may be ordered to help in all kinds of emergencies by not only the Spanish government - which by the way set this all up with a cost of Euros 4 million - but, also by the Tenerife 'Cabilde', municipalities and likewise authorities.

Please, go back from Tenerife details to wildfires in Tenerife for a detailed report with different photographic Tenerife details where all fire news of 2008 in forests and nearby and more are taken down. The bush fire catastrophy Gran Canaria which is only a slightly smaller island than Tenerife is part of it.

Here, you may watch a VIDEO which was taken shortly after the wildfires in Tenerife.

The movie has no sound. I would like you to see it, anyway, because, what it shows in moving pictures, only, complements my photos very much.

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