Guía de Isora is preparing to take centre stage in a major volcanic emergency drill, with Tenerife Council and the local council working together to coordinate VOLCANEX Tenerife 2026.
The exercise will simulate a volcanic eruption in the municipality, testing how effectively emergency services, security teams and local authorities respond when the pressure is on.
This isn’t just about checking emergency plans on paper. The aim is to put them into practice, assess logistics and coordination, and examine how local residents could be involved in a real emergency.
Putting emergency plans to the test
A coordination meeting was held on Monday, bringing together Iván Martín, Tenerife’s island emergency director, and Guía de Isora mayor Ana Dorta.
Both stressed the importance of the exercise in improving preparedness and making sure the different teams can work together effectively if a volcanic incident occurs.
Martín described the drill as an important opportunity to assess how an emergency response would work in practice. Dorta said it was both a responsibility and a chance to improve local readiness through better coordination of resources.
A major test for Tenerife
VOLCANEX Tenerife 2026 is being billed as the largest volcanic risk exercise ever organised in Spain. It will focus on the practical challenges of responding to a crisis, including the deployment of resources and coordination between the authorities involved.
The exercise is intended to help identify weaknesses before a real emergency makes them rather more difficult to deal with.
One detail to clarify: the source gives the exercise date as Thursday, 22 February, but does not specify the year for that date. It would be worth confirming the scheduled date before publication.
Guía de Isora is in South Tenerife, on the island’s south-west coast.