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Everything indicated that the

La Palma volcano

was going to erupt, but no one could know when.

At 3:13 pm, a new volcano erupted on the island.

5,000 evacuated residents and hundreds observing a spectacular phenomenon, but at the same time terrifying.

"It is an incredible show that gives panic,"

says María del Pino Hernández, a resident of Los Llanos de Aridane.

From the roof of her house, a little more than a couple of kilometers north of where the lava runs,

María del Pino

, whom the authorities recommended to leave her house as a precaution, related in a telephone interview with Efe how she lived the moment Of the eruption and the fear that he cannot resist.

"It hallucinates me and at the same time it scares me very much

,

"

admits the woman.

Although she says she was psychologically prepared, the sudden eviction

caused her "bewilderment"

and she was overtaken by an eruption that she describes as a spectacle that causes her emotion and fear in equal measure.

According to his account, in the middle of the afternoon, on the recommendation of the City Council, he left his house and left with just

enough

:

a little clothes, a juice and water, leaving his pets behind

.

"

It was a very stressful moment,

some neighbors came out screaming, the children were crying ...", says María del Pino, who hours later, seeing that the fire was not going to reach her house at first, decided to return.

"This is something nice to see but it

is

also

a catastrophe

because many people are losing everything they have," lamented another neighbor in the area in statements to Canarias 7.

Marta, a neighbor of

Las Manchas

, tells Canarias 7 that the volcano "burst near my house, one or two kilometers away" and had to leave "with my parents, my partner and my brother" in the direction of the soccer field in Step.

The ground shook,

a roar was heard ... it

seemed that a military plane was approaching low over the area of

La Palma

subjected to maximum surveillance for a week due to the possibility that the Cumbre Vieja was reactivated, but it was not a airplane.

It was 3:10 p.m. and a volcano had just erupted.

"It has been spectacular", recounts the photographer

Miguel Pérez Calero

, a collaborator of the Efe agency in

La Palma

, one of the journalists whom the eruption has caught, by chance, in a front row seat.

"There was a seismic movement, followed by a small tremor. And I felt like I was getting dizzy. My wife told me:

here comes the plane, but really what came out was the whole column of smoke

. It started to burst, burst, burst and no it has stopped throwing fire ", relates the collaborator of Efe.

The moment has seen it live, for the first time in history, practically half the Canary Islands, because at that time the Autonomous Television was with a live show, focusing on that place.

"It is an experience. If it weren't for the danger it will pose to many homes ..." Pérez Calero laments.

But he insists:

"It is a spectacle of nature

.

"

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