Ringside seat for fearful villagers as Canaries volcano spews fireThe lava flow from the Cumbre Vieja volcano has poured into the Atlantic OceanTAZACORTE (SPAIN) - Residents of the Canary Island village of Tazacorte had a ringside seat but were shocked and unwilling onlookers on Friday, contemplating a too-close-for-comfort spectacular eruption of La Palma's Cumbre Vieja volcano. Down in the port, fisherman Jesus Guillermo Hernandez Rodriguez, 49, defiantly hoses away sticky blackened volcanic sand which has covered his vessel. He explains he operates in what is "one of the best fishing zones in the west of the island". Massive swathes of banana plantations dominate the scenery in Tazacorte -- exports of the fruit are one of La Palma's main earners. Nieves, who refuses to give her surname, says she has little hope for the future after the volcano "destroyed everything."
