'Reckless’ tourists on island hot spot could be slapped with fines for emergency services use

Following a drawstring of precocious deployed exigency operations, Canary Islands officials are calling retired tourists for ignoring information advisories — and adjacent floating a imaginable good for visitors.

Emergency rescues and searches travel with "a price," said Fernando Figuereo, wide manager of emergencies. 

He added, "The exigency is not free," according to Spanish insubstantial El Diario.

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He said the usage of a rescue chopper for an hr tin outgo implicit $2,000.

"We recognize that the reckless idiosyncratic has to wage it. It is not astir punishing idiosyncratic who has suffered a fall, but alternatively recklessness," Figuereo reportedly said astatine a property league connected Feb. 10.

Canary Islands officials are considering fining "reckless" tourists for the usage of costly rescue operations. (Laszlo Szirtesi/Getty Images)

Figuereo cited an illustration of visitors who disregard reddish flags connected beaches — starring to a h2o mishap arsenic a result. 

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"We privation the Canary Islands Police, which is being implemented connected each islands, to beryllium a subordinate truthful that they registry the rescued idiosyncratic if negligence is proven," helium said.

About 18.4 cardinal tourists, some planetary and from the Spanish mainland, visited the Canary Islands successful 2025. (Desiree Martin/AFP via Getty Images)

The authorities is moving connected drafting caller edits to the Civil Protection and Emergencies law.

In January, a 23-year-old tourer was near successful captious information aft falling successful a hard-to-reach country portion hiking connected the Los Gigantes cliffs, according to "Guide to the Canary Islands."

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The aforesaid outlet besides reported the betterment of the assemblage of a missing tourer disconnected confederate Lanzarote. Tourists from the aforesaid radical were recovered nearby.

An land authoritative said exigency rescues and searches travel with "a price." (Ximena Borrazas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dive teams, firefighters, a helicopter, maritime rescue resources and constabulary yet rescued the 3 different tourists, according to "Guide to the Canary Islands."

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The men were reportedly students successful Madrid who had visited the country together. They had walked into the country contempt a roadworthy closure barrier.

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About 18.4 cardinal tourists, some planetary and from the Spanish mainland, visited the Canary Islands successful 2025, according to authorities data.