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The lava from the volcano on La Palma consumes part of another neighborhood and specialists fear the worst

The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on La Palma, has been continuously erupting for more than a month and now the La Laguna neighborhood is being washed away by lava. It is the same that happened to the Todoque community, today buried by volcanic material thanks to the initial runoff that erupted from the volcano.

In the last hours the lava has advanced through the urban area, evacuated a week ago, destroying a service station and approaching the church square and the school.

This was, until 24 hours ago, the worst scenario thought by the crisis committee, which hoped that the most active streams would be channeled through several troughs that they would find in their path and head towards the sea, without causing more damage than already caused.

“We have been on the volcano for 31 days. We all had some kind of hope, but the reality is that there has not been a single day of truce“, Said this Wednesday Noelia García, mayor of Los Llanos de Aridane, the municipality that saw the Todoque neighborhood disappear in slow motion and now contemplates, astonished, how history repeats itself with the nucleus of La Laguna.

Now hopes are placed on the group of streams that crosses that neighborhood continue its advance towards the south of the mountain of the place, because if it went north there would be “an undesirable scenario” of damage, devastating new buildings and many crops to along the coast road.

Slow but hard

Another of the streams is located 130 meters from the coast, and about 80 meters from the cliff, but an imminent fall into the sea is not expected because its movement is slow and has evolved very little in the last 48 hours.

If it reaches the sea, it has already been planned to order a confinement of the population due to the probable emission of hydrochloric acid gases.

The scientific spokesperson for the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pevolca), María José Blanco, pointed out that the new emission center that yesterday emitted very dark columns has begun to have strombolian activity today.

It has also warned of the possibility of mildly damaging earthquakes, after a 4.8 was recorded last night, at the moment the highest magnitude since the eruption began.

As for the emissions in the upper layers, one of the satellites of the Copernicus program has captured an image of a column of sulfur dioxide en route to northeast Europe.

This is heading towards this area after flying over the Iberian Peninsula, France and the United Kingdom.

The area affected by the eruption is already 807.85 hectares, 27.96 more than yesterday, and the maximum width between the interior washes is 2,900 meters, according to data that could not be updated in recent hours due to adverse weather conditions.

The affected crops occupy 245.88 hectares and, pending new data from the Copernicus system, according to the cadastre there are 1,122 buildings destroyed, of which 902 are for residential use.

Complicated dog rescue

Amid concerns about the advance of magma, the future of a group of dogs, isolated for days by lava in an area that has been evacuated for weeks, keeps the population on edge.

This Wednesday was the marked moment for a specialized firm, hired by an animal rights organization, will test if he can get them out of there with his modified transport drones.

After some hopeful tests, an unexpected problem has arisen: the dogs are not there, or at least the drones do not see them, not even with thermal cameras, apparently because the high temperatures in the area have made them take refuge in the shade of some bush or of any item that has survived the ashes.

Neither the company, nor the animal rights group that has promoted the operation, Leales.org, throw in the towel and they announce that they will continue to search for the canines in the hope of giving a little joy to thousands of palm trees who have been subjected to the torture in slow motion of the advance of lava flows over hundreds of houses and farmland for a month.

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