Mexico’s so-called “Fire Volcano” erupted Monday spewing lava and glowing rocks in its biggest explosion since 1999, said a director of the country’s civil protection agency.
A huge gray column of smoke billowed into the evening air from a crater of the 12,540-foot volcano in the western state of Colima, according to television images.
The “Fire volcano” is located in a sparsely populated rural area about 300 miles from the Mexican capital.
There were no immediate plans to evacuate any of the tiny villages that lie around the volcano, said Luis Salazar, operations director of the Civil Protection agency in Colima.
“There was an explosion that sent up a column of smoke some 4 km (2.5 miles) into the air,” Salazar told Reuters. “We are monitoring the situation but for the moment there is no need to evacuate.”
