![]() Many local families have a backpack ready with food, water, a flashlight and medicine so they can evacuate for up to three days at the drop of a hat. "People here are used to experiencing this, and they look at it as normal," Demetrio Pamal, a 28-year-old Indigenous Mayan farmer, told AFP. Locals saw a sudden expulsion of lava on Saturday night that reddened the sky. ![]() "With what happened in 2018, now the authorities are already more alert and more active," said Jose Sul, a resident of Alotenango, which lies at the eastern base of Fuego. Many local families near Guatemala's volcanoes have a backpack ready to evacuate with food, water, a flashlight, and medicine. In 2018, an eruption sent rivers of lava pouring down its sides, devastating the village of San Miguel Los Lotes, killing 215 people and leaving a similar number missing.Īuthorities said they were monitoring the latest eruption closely, but that no one had been evacuated. The volcano sits about 16 kilometers from Antigua, the country's picturesque former capital and biggest tourist attraction.įuego erupts every four to five years on average. ![]() It reopened Sunday afternoon as the volcano's activity subsided. In addition, a road that connects southern and central Guatemala was closed as a precaution, said Carlos Aquino, a spokesman for the highway police. ![]() La Aurora international airport, six kilometers south of the capital, was temporarily closed at mid-morning, the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics said in a statement, citing the presence of ash near the runway.Īt least two incoming flights had to be diverted, aviation sources said, before it reopened around midday local time after winds changed direction and sent ash away from the facility. Winds carried the ash toward Guatemala City, 35 kilometers (22 miles) away. ![]() The volcano named Fuego-Spanish for fire-rumbled into activity overnight Saturday into Sunday, with molten rock oozing down its slopes and ash belching two kilometers (more than a mile) into the sky. ![]()
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