‘My whole life in a van’: Islanders flee Spanish volcano

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Slow-motion footage shows lava from the La Palma volcano illuminating the night sky.

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Residents hoping to save some of their belongings queued up at two areas designated by authorities so they could be escorted into the village. The lava was advancing slowly in the distance, at around 120 meters an hour, with smoke coming from its leading edge as it destroyed everything in its path. “This is probably going to be the last time I see my home,” he said. “Or, in the best-case scenario, the house will remain isolated by the lava and inaccessible for who knows how long.”

The meeting of the lava, whose temperature exceeds 1,000 degrees Celsius , with a body of water could cause explosions, trigger landslides and produce clouds of toxic gas.The Canary Island Volcanology Institute said it based its calculation on the length of previous eruptions on the archipelago, which like the latest eruption were followed by heavy lava flows and lasting seismic activity.

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SteveMatross I just hope if lava were coming down the mountain after me it would be in slow-motion.

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JamesAALongman This is NOT a surprise to those of us who understand that we have entered a NEW cyclical season with the Sun called the 'Grand Solar Minimum' There will be MORE volcanic activity!! 👈 science grandsolarminimum

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JamesAALongman Either you move your location or you stay and ride the volcanic storm..life choices.

The fire service should of put this out by now.

To bad it wasn’t Trump resort

There is no planet B. There is no time to waste.

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