More than a week has passed with orange alert at Nevado del Ruiz volcano. Caldas and Risaralda declared a disaster and Tolima received a red alert at the hospital. During this Holy Saturday, April 8, Authorities are deployed to high-risk areas to persuade residents who refuse to evacuate in the midst of a possible eruption.
(We recommend: this is the mighty Arenas crater with anomalies of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano).
“The matter is not easy, people are refusing to evacuate. The families agreed, although not as loudly as we would like,” said Luis Fernando Velasco, director of the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD). for EL TIEMPO.
(Also: Nevado del Ruiz: how is the preventive evacuation process going?).
Follow the minute-by-minute LIVE activity of the volcano this Holy Saturday here:
Sebastian Garcia and Margarita Contreras
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Source: Exame
