Video: Lava, Ash From Guatemala’s Fuego Volcano Buried Woman’s Family, She Says

Video: Lava, Ash From Guatemala’s Fuego Volcano Buried Woman’s Family, She Says

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Dramatic footage shows a woman emerging from the ashes of Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego saying that while she managed to escape, her entire family and neighbors were likely wiped out by a rogue lava flow.

The more than 12,000-foot Volcano of Fire west of Guatemala City exploded Sunday, sending out a rapidly moving pyroclastic flow of 1,200-degree-Fahrenheit lava and ash into the nearby villages of El Rodeo and San Miguel Los Lotes. The explosion sent ash thousands of feet into the air, but the fast-moving lava flows caught local officials off guard. Evacuation orders were only given to some 3,000 of nearly 1.7 million people in the surrounding villages. Video recorded by the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala (CONRED) shows the woman, identified by RBC Televisión as El Rodeo resident Consuelo Hernández, walking dazed down a smoky street to describe the horrific scene she’d just witnessed.