La Palma residents use umbrellas to ward off ash from volcano

A Spanish drone operator received permission on Tuesday to launch a rescue mission to save three emaciated dogs that are trapped in a walled yard near the erupting volcano in the Canary Islands (left). The starving dogs have been cut off for weeks by the La Palma volcanic lava and are to be flown to safety by drones. The drone operators will have just four minutes to lure a dog into a remote-controlled net, and another four minutes to fly it out over the stream of lava. They have been kept alive by drones dropping packages of food but until now no one has been able to figure out how to rescue them as helicopters are unable to fly in the area due to hot gas and volcanic ash. Meanwhile, a second 'unstoppable' river of red-hot lava is consuming more land and houses and is due to hit the ocean 'within hours'. A dramatic video posted on Twitter on Monday night showing the lava eerily moving forward (bottom right). It has now been one month since the eruption began in the Cumbre Vieja mountains, on September 19.

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