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About 200 firefighters and emergency service workers are engaged in tackling the blaze
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A man has died and 700 people have
been evacuated after a wildfire broke out on the Spanish island of La
Palma in the Canary Islands.
Francisco Jose Santana, a married father of five and park ranger, died while trying to extinguish the blaze. Police have arrested a 27-year-old German man who admitted having started the fire accidentally.
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Emergency service workers have been trying to stop the fire spreading
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Firefighters have worked through the night
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Spanish media reports say the man had been burning used toilet paper. About
200 firefighters and emergency service workers are trying to put out
the fire, AP news agency reported regional government officials as
saying.
The island's last major fire was in 2009, when 4,000 people had to be evacuated.
