The regional government of the Canary Islands ordered this Tuesday the closure of schools due to the heat affecting the Spanish archipelago, with record temperatures in October, while the large fire that affected Tenerife in summer reignited. In a week in which Thursday is a national holiday, the regional executive decreed "the suspension, Wednesday and Friday, of school activity in the Islands due to the current weather situation," announced on Education. The archipelago located off the coast of northwest Africa "is on pre-alert due to high temperatures and haze and on maximum alert due to the risk of forest fires," the ministry recalled. For almost two weeks, Spain has been experiencing summer weather that once again filled the beaches and, in the case of the Canary Islands, placed thermometers around 35ºC practically daily, according to the AFP news agency.