Thirty-three thousand people evacuated Guatemala earlier today when the Volcan de Fuego ("Volcano of Fire") erupted near one of the country's most prominent tourist sites. The volcano shot ash into the sky, forming dense clouds nearly two miles long. Gustavo Chicna, a volcanologist with the National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology told the Associated Press that “A paroxysm of an eruption is taking place, a great volcanic eruption, with strong explosions and columns of ash," describing his surroundings as, “it's almost in total darkness.”
Fuego erupted earlier this year:
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