They were the longest 15 seconds of my life," said Lali Gutierrez, recalling how she and her family scrambled to escape a wildfire which advanced towards her home in Tenerife.
"We grabbed our two dogs and a cat when they told us to leave, and that was all we had time for."
The 56-year-old told Al Jazeera of her escape from a blaze caused by a sandstorm which has wreaked chaos in the Spanish Canary Islands.
