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Guatemala are evacuating immoderate residents from the slopes the Volcano of Fire aft a caller eruption spewed state and ash precocious into the sky
GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemala began evacuating immoderate residents from the slopes the Volcano of Fire Thursday aft a caller eruption spewed blistery state and ash precocious into the sky.
Juan Laureano, spokesperson for the National Disaster Reduction Coordinator, said that astatine slightest 594 radical were moved to shelters from 5 communities successful Chimaltenango, Escuintla and Sacatepequez departments.
Laureano said that fixed the volcano’s enactment the fig of evacuees was expected to rise.
Wilver Guerra, 28-year-old nonmigratory of El Porvenir moved to a structure successful Chimaltenango.
“At archetypal everything was normal, lone occurrence successful the greeting erstwhile the volcano’s enactment accrued a bit, but it’s ok, amended to evacuate successful time,” helium said.
Authorities besides closed a road successful the country and suspended classes astatine 39 schools.
The 12,300-foot (3,763-meter) precocious volcano is 1 of the astir progressive successful Central America. It is 33 miles (53 km) from Guatemala’s capital.
A 2018 eruption killed 194 radical and near different 234 missing.
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