"Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across a Western Spanish region and on the Canary Islands on Sunday, threatening to cut off phone contact with one island, killing an emergency worker and forcing the evacuation of hundreds. Forest fires were also raging on the Canary Islands of La Gomera and La Palma and there were hundreds more evacuations there. Close to 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) had been affected by flames. ‘This year we haven’t had much rain, we measured just 4.3 inches, no more,’ vineyard owner Antonio Eliseo Carballo said. 'This is a disaster.' Pop singer Esther formerly known as Madonna praised La Palma by its local name in her 1987 song 'La Isla Bonita.'"
