11:07 26/11/2014
Lava reaches first village on the island of Fogo in Cape Verde. Speaking to Lusa agency, Helium Semedo, geologist of the National Institute of Civil Protection and Fire (INPCB) of Cape Verde, said that at 06:00 local (07:00 in Lisbon), the two main streams of lava were "only two meters "first home of the village of Portela and 30 of Brava Hotel Stone.
According to the same expert, increased Lava travel speed "due to the intensification of volcanic activity recorded at the end of Tuesday and lasted through the early hours of today, already seven mouths by which it is to be expelled and the various 'sausages' (small rivers) that meanwhile been created, taking advantage of the topography of the land. "
The director of operations of the Civil Protection and Fire Cape Verde, Nuno Oliveira, said Lusa that the lava already passed also the "natural barrier" two meters "murava" Portela entry, increasing the risk of destruction of that locality.
About a hundred of police officers is in place to ensure the safety Portela, with a command and camp assembled at the school location, where it remains also another hundred inhabitants to try to save as many goods of the local population . Nuno Oliveira told the Lusa that several young people gathered and joined family members to help them save the personal belongings of the inhabitants of the town, there are even women to sleep on the northern slope of Tea crater of boilers, with the goods they managed to rescue, among which tables, mattresses, doors, windows and livestock such as pigs, goats and chickens.
Meanwhile, said Nuno Oliveira, two retroescavadores are operating in the north of the crater to open an alternative road towards the village of monasteries in the north of the island, to allow access to the risk area.
To ascertain the situation, the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, José Maria Neves, went to the fire in a small plane with 19 others, including members of the government and deputies, as well as two volcanologists Technological Institute of Energy renewable Canary Islands (Spain), which will perform tests on the gas discharged from the volcano, the air to determine toxicity levels due to the release of high amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
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