In Canary Islands, 3,000 people confined as a result of eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano

This confinement is due “to the possible honest health fumes” related to the arrival in the sea of a new lava casting.

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This is the third time a lava flow reached the sea since the beginning of the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, on September 19th. The authorities of the Spanish Island of La Palma, in the archipelago of the Canaries, decreed, on Monday, November 22, the confinement of about 3,000 people, for fear of potential toxic fumes related to the arrival in the sea of this New lava casting.

The volcanic emergency plan of the Canaries (Pevolca) “orders the containment” of the inhabitants of communes and coastal hamlets, located near the place where the lava has fallen into cascade in the sea in a large white smoke plume , announced on Twitter the emergency services of the archipelago. This confinement is due “to the possible emptings of harmful gas for health,” adds the press release.

16.10h | 🔴 CERCA of 3 mil Personas Están Confinadas Después de Lledge Al Mar La Colada Número 7. Este Confinamiento … https://t.co/7ncsorlmgn //p>- laautonomica (@Canarias radio)

Flight disturbances

If the lava has only devastated part of the west of the island, the ash spacious by the volcano have resulted in Monday a suspension of operations on the airport of Santa Cruz de la Palma, the capital From the island, located on the east coast, said Aena airport manager. The regional Binter company has announced the cancellation of all its leaving flights and arriving at La Palma on Monday

It's been two months since the Cumbre Vieja started at Entering eruption, forcing more than 6,000 people to leave their homes while the lava was making a path through huge expanses of land west of La Palma. — It has been two months since the Cumbre Vieja started to erupt, forcing more than 6,000 people to leave their houses while the lava Filled one way through huge expanses of earth west of La Palma. Luismi Ortiz / AFP

Sunday, the disturbances at the airport had forced many tourists to fall back on the Ferrys to Tenerife, another island of the archipelago.

Moreover, for the first time since the beginning of the eruption, the authorities of the island have asked the inhabitants of Santa Cruz de la Palma to wear a FFP2 mask to protect themselves from sulfur dioxide fumes .

Members of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit (UME) monitor gas emissions in an area covered with Ash Manchas, as a result the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canarian Island of La Palma, November 19, 2021. — Members of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit (UME) monitor gas emissions in an area covered with ashes of Las Manhas, Following the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canarian Island of La Palma, November 19, 2021. Luismi Ortiz / AFP

Experts do not see, for the moment, The end of the eruption which, according to the cadastre, destroyed almost 1,500 buildings, including nearly 1,100 homes. According to the latest data from the European Geospatial Meeting System Copernicus, the lava covered 1,065 hectares.

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