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Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Blaze battle on tourist island as Europe faces ‘severe heat storm’

Firefighers were on Monday battling to contain a wildfire that forced the evacuation of at least 4,000 people on La Palma in the Canary Islands.

The blaze, which started on Saturday in a wooded area in the north of the Spanish island which is popular with British tourists, has torn through more than 4,600 hectares and burned around 20 houses and buildings.

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