Major wildfires burn in Greece, Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife

By ELENA BECATOROS
Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Major wildfires are burning in Greece and on Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife off the northwest coast of Africa. Hot, dry and windy conditions are hampering the efforts of hundreds of firefighters battling the blazes, two of which have been burning for several days. In Greece, the body of a man was recovered from an area where two villages were being evacuated after a wildfire broke out Monday morning, while a major blaze was burning for the third day in the northeast of the country near the border with Turkey and several others broke out around the country. In Spain’s Tenerife, a fire that police said was set deliberately last Tuesday continued to burn out of control.