Residents Are Cleaning Up and Staying Vigilant
Ashfall has reached Santa Cruz de La Palma, the capital city of the island. Residents were seen cleaning a layer of black crud off the streets and walking with umbrellas on Monday morning. It reflects the strange dichotomy of an explosive eruption and life going on as normally as can be given the situation for some of those on the island further from the eruption and areas where lava is nearing the Atlantic.
“We’re not in a state of total alarm,” the technical director of the volcano emergency response unit, Miguel Ángel Morcuende, said at a news conference. “Life on the island is continuing, though those close to the eruption are facing difficulties.”
