A hiker was killed after a series of eruptions from one of the most active volcanoes on Earth rocked the small Italian island of Stromboli, a fire official said
A hiker was killed Wednesday after a series of eruptions from one of the most active volcanoes on Earth rocked the small Italian island of Stromboli, a fire official said.
Firefighters were deployed to extinguish fires started by the eruption, and a helicopter was dispatched to rescue hikers who signaled distress, according to the Italian fire and rescue service, Vigili del Fuoco. Fire service spokesman Luca Cari said fire brigade teams recovered the body of one hiker. Firefighters rescued a second hiker, Cari said.The two primary eruptions occurred around 4:46 p.m.
— Boris Behncke July 3, 2019 Tourists took shelter in the sea, Italian news agency ANSA reported.Volcanoes Fast FactsA 'fountain of stones' Cristiano Demurtas, who was working with an ecological theater festival on the island that wrapped this week, told CNN he witnessed a brief eruption. He and several colleagues were on the terrace of their villa when he heard what sounded like the whirring sound of a helicopter, Demurtas told CNN in a phone interview from the villa in Stromboli.
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