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Date: September 30, 2017 at 12:05:12
From: Captainj, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Australian Navy Underway To Help Evacuate 11,000 From Vanuatu Volcano |
URL: http://gcaptain.com/australian-navy-underway-help-evacuate-11000-vanuatu-volcano/ |
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By Garfield Clinton Reynolds (Bloomberg) Australia is sending a
naval vessel to help Vanuatu in its efforts to evacuate 11,000
residents from Ambae Island as a volcano there threatens to
erupt.
The HMAS Choules left Australia on Saturday morning and is
expected to arrive in the middle of next week, the Australian
government said in an emailed statement. The Choules is carrying
specialists, supplies and a landing craft. Australia has committed
A$250,000 ($196,000) to provide supplies and sent a team of
humanitarian and military experts due to arrive Saturday.
In Vanuatu, a fleet of ships including ferries and commercial
vessels has begun moving people from Ambae to nearby islands.
The Choules can carry more than 300 troops, along with landing
craft, tanks and trucks, as well as operating Navy helicopters,
according to the Australian Navy’s website.
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Date: October 01, 2017 at 16:11:53
From: Captainj, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Dunkirk-Style Evacuation Underway In Vanuatu |
URL: http://gcaptain.com/dunkirk-style-evacuation-underway-vanuatu/ |
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Vanuatu has launched a Dunkirk-style evacuation on the northern island of Ambae as a flotilla of boats rescues islanders from an erupting volcano.
The eruption has polluted many of the island’s water sources leaving thousands of people in need of safe drinking water, Red Cross delegate Joe Cropp told Reuters by phone on
Sunday.
“Water is crucial,” he said. “It’s important to get on top of it right away.”
The Manaro Voui volcano, the nation’s largest, was seen hurling steam and rocks into the air by New Zealand vulcanologist Brad Scott who flew over the volcano on Saturday.
“Maybe about every 8 to 10 seconds there was an explosion, throwing lava bombs up maybe 50 to 100 meters above the crater and there’s also two small lava flows that are flowing
across the island into the lake as well,” he said in an interview with Radio NZ published on Sunday.
Crowds of islanders from at least three evacuation points on the island have begun boarding a flotilla of ships including ferries, canoes and commercial vessels for the safety of
surrounding islands Maewo, Pentecost and Santo.
The Vanuatu Government wants all 11,000 islanders evacuated by Oct. 6.
Australia sent amphibious Bay Class landing ship HMAS Choules on Saturday to help move the population, and it is expected to arrive by the middle of the week.
Some islanders are flying out while others have already moved to stay with friends or relatives in the capital, Port Vila.
More than 6000 people have gone to emergency shelters on the South Pacific island in preparation for the total evacuation.
Manaro Voui stirred to life in September, threatening island residents with burning ash, toxic gas and acid rain.
The volcano is crowned by crater lakes. One of them, Lake Voui, is directly on top of the eruption making it dangerously explosive and posing the deadly threat of a lahar: a boiling mud
flow down the side of the mountain, Macquarie University vulcanologist Christopher Firth told Reuters by telephone on Saturday.
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Date: September 30, 2017 at 12:24:45
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Australian Navy Underway To Help Evacuate 11,000 From Vanuatu... |
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thanks for info- other day I was looking up the volcano action there and the evac orders.
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