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Vesuvius. it just came upon you so quickly. >> he mentioned 80 mile-per-hour gusts that blew the fire. we thought we were safe with it being so far south of us the national weather service in our emergency managers knew the high winds were coming. it was a possibility but we have never had a fire like this before. and it came quick. the commissions were right for it. maui is now dealing with at the worst disaster we've ever had. we've got the hurricanes, tsunamis, two lava flows in 2014 and 2018. but the images coming out of lahaina and the stories is devastating and hurting the island so much...

A job likely to be replicated for decades. james waterhouse, bbc news, kharkiv region. i want to show you some dramatic images from russia, where a volcano erupted on tuesday releasing a ten—kilometre cloud of smoke and ash into the sky. the volcano is located in the far east of russia in the kamchatka peninsula. nearby areas were smothered in a thick layer of ash with almost ten centimetres of volcanic dust coating some villages. lava flows tumbled from the volcano, melting snow and prompting a warning of mud flows along a nearby highway. so far, no casualties have been reported.

A recent article published in Nature Geoscience revealed that Spanish emergency management officers knew about the magma accumulation underneath the La Palma volcano three and a half months [...]

Public approaches this lava fountain or any of the lava flows. they may not be aware of the multitude of hazards. you have gas inhalation, volcanic glass, superheat, obviously, and it's uneven terrain. everything is changing and you don't know if a crack could open up beneath our feet if you're walking on freshly cooled lava. i advise everybody to stay where hawaii county has designated as viewing areas. >> and yesterday when we spoke you told me this was the first volcano you've studied. what are you hoping to learn from it now? >> well, it is the first that i ever experienced myself. and we ...

Spreading, so it's difficult whether it will reach the highway. however, in the latest update that came yesterday morning from the u.s. geological survey, they thought that it might be as much as a week away. >> okay. so lava a week away and moving slowly, but the air and ash are potentially more dangerous. so take us through what makes that such a hazard for people. >> so, tissue volcanos emit materials in a variety of ways, three primary ways being volcanic gases, volcanic gas or articulates in the atmosphere as well as lava flows. and so of those three types of materials, the volcanic gas o...