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Fuego volcano erupts in Alotenango, 65 kilometers southwest of Guatemala City on Tuesday. (AFP-Yonhap) <\/p>\n Fuego volcano erupts in Alotenango, 65 kilometers southwest of Guatemala City on Tuesday. (AFP-Yonhap) <\/p>\n
Hundreds of people living on the slopes of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano evacuated their homes Tuesday after a huge eruption spewed lava and plumes of ash.<\/p>\n
Emergency services issued a red alert, the most severe warning, after Central America’s most active volcano erupted Monday morning, with conditions intensifying by nightfall.<\/p>\n
Rivers of lava streamed down the 3,763-meter volcano located less than 100 kilometers from Guatemala City, while ash rose some six kilometers into the red sky.<\/p>\n
“Since early morning it was active. That night, the alarm was raised that we needed to evacuate,” local resident Alejandro Garcia, 68, told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n
Villagers left of their own accord out of fear, Garcia said, describing terrifying scenes of lava oozing down the mountainside.<\/p>\n
Firefighters said they transported at least 500 residents of the El Porvenir and Las Lajitas villages to the eastward San Juan Alotenango municipality.<\/p>\n
Evacuees are staying in a community hall where makeshift beds have been set up, while the number of people taken to other nearby towns remains unknown.<\/p>\n
“If there were any chance of moving to a different house, it would be better, because you’re always afraid since the volcano doesn’t give any warning,” Lidia Ortiz, 40, told AFP at the shelter.<\/p>\n
Escuintla to the south was sheltering dozens more families, including children, local authorities reported.<\/p>\n
The red alert applies to the Sacatepequez, Chimaltenango and Escuintla areas, with a population of 1.6 million.<\/p>\n
Emergency services director Claudine Ogaldes called on at-risk families to come to shelters voluntarily.<\/p>\n
“In those spaces, you will find care, support and safe conditions while the volcanic activity continues,” she wrote on X.<\/p>\n
The country’s Institute of Volcanology warned of hot volcanic debris flows down Fuego’s slopes, with communities on the western and southern flanks at the greatest risk.<\/p>\n
Fuego had been erupting for 23 hours straight by Tuesday morning, it said, although the intensity was easing slightly.<\/p>\n
“We’ve already gotten used to having the volcano constantly active, but this time it was really too much,” 50-year-old resident Sonia Vasquez told AFP.<\/p>\n
There has so far been no impact on the capital’s international airport.<\/p>\n
The Education Ministry suspended face-to-face classes in communities within two municipalities near the volcano.<\/p>\n
Police closed and later reopened a nearby road leading to the colonial city of Antigua, a tourist destination and UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/p>\n
Guatemala lies on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity. There have been several such mass evacuations in recent years because Fuego erupted.<\/p>\n
Authorities evacuated more than 500 people last year after Fuego spurted out gas and ash, with residents moved to shelters from communities near the crater.<\/p>\n
Another eruption in 2023 pushed around 1,200 people to evacuate.<\/p>\n
In 2018, 215 people were killed and a similar number left missing when rivers of lava poured down Fuego’s slopes and destroyed a village. (AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuego volcano erupts in Alotenango, 65 kilometers southwest of Guatemala City on Tuesday. (AFP-Yonhap) Hundreds of people living…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56321,56319,56318,195,52775,56320],"class_list":["post-109539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-emergency","tag-fuego","tag-guatemala","tag-k-pop","tag-residents","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}