Police deployed at strategic locations to “safeguard life and property”
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With an evacuation order having been issued for areas in the Red Zone, members of the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) have been deployed at strategic locations throughout the country to “safeguard life and property, and to ensure the free flow of traffic on the nation’s roads.”
A release from the RSVPF said: “In addition, the RSVGPF has also set up security check points in the vicinity of the bridge in Walliabou (Central Leeward) and at Mt Young (in the vicinity of the Rubis Gas Station (North Windward). These check points will ensure that no unauthorized persons or vehicles enter the Red Zones.”
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An explosive volcano has blanketed the Caribbean island of St Vincent in ash and smoke and forced thousands of people out of their homes.
The eruption of La Soufriere Volcano viewed from Rillan Hill on Saint Vincent island.
Photo: Zen Punnett/ AFP
La Soufrière, which has been dormant for decades, first started showing volcanic activity in December and this surged this week.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves urged more than 16,000 residents in red zones to evacuate.
The volcano has since spewed dark ash plumes 6km into the air.
Ash fall has been recorded as far from the volcano as Argyle International Airport, St Vincent s National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) said.
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Kingstown – A third explosive eruption began at La Soufriere on Friday evening, the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) reported.
The latest of the three events that have occurred within a ten-hour period was recorded around 6:35 p.m. It followed one at 2:45 p.m., which came after the first at 8:41 a.m.
All three explosive eruptions have sent thick ash plumes thousands of feet into the sky and resulted in ash falls in parts of the country as well as neighbouring islands.
After the first eruption on Friday morning, the lead scientist on the UWI-SRC team, Professor Richard Robertson, put Vincentians on notice that more eruptions would likely follow.
ST JOHN’S: A volcano erupted on Friday for the first time in 40 years on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, prompting thousands of people to evacuate, seismologists and other officials said.
The blast from La Soufriere, the highest peak in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sent plumes of ash 6,000 metres into the air, the local emergency management agency said.
“Please leave the red zone immediately. La Soufriere has erupted. Ash fall recorded as far as Argyle International Airport,” the National Emergency Management Organization said. The airport is in the southern part of the 30-kilometre long island while the volcano is in the north.