Guatemalans told to evacuate as the country’s ‘volcano of fire’ begins to erupt

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  • Several Guatemalan communities were told to evacuate on Monday as the country’s most active volcano begins to erupt for the third time in 2018. 
  • The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) urged eight communities to leave their homes, but later tweeted some weren’t going.
  • The 12,346-feet (3,763-meter) “Volcano de Fuego” or “Volcano of Fire” is emitting “400-meter incandescent pulses,” the disaster coordinator said on Sunday.
  • It’s the volcano’s third eruption in 2018, after one in June killed 194 people.

Eight communities in south Guatemala, comprising hundreds of people, have been told to evacuate their homes on Monday as a volcano — called the “Volcano of Fire” — started to erupt. 

David de León, the spokesman for the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) said eight nearby communities should leave now, he told the Associated Press (AP.)

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