+Guatemala Volcano 2
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Friday, 28 May 2010
STORY:+Guatemala Volcano 2- WRAP 1 dead, 3 missing in volcano eruption ADDS killed reporter pics
LENGTH: 02:30
FIRST RUN: 2330
RESTRICTIONS: PART NO ACCESS GUATEMALA
TYPE: Spanish/Natsound
SOURCE: VARIOUS
STORY NUMBER: 646878
DATELINE: Various - 27/28 May 2010
LENGTH: 02:30
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NOTI SIETE / NUESTRO DIARIO - NO ACCESS GUATEMALA
SHOTLIST
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NOTI SIETE - NO ACCESS GUATEMALA
Pacaya volcano, 28 May 2010
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1. Wide of eruption of volcano, lava and ash spewing out of crater
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Pacaya volcano, 28 May 2010
++NIGHT SHOTS++
2. Volcano spitting stones and ash
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NOTI SIETE - NO ACCESS GUATEMALA
Pacaya volcano, 27 May 2010
3. Noti Siete (Channel 7) reporter Anibal Archila conducting a report near the volcano shortly after it started spewing ash
UPSOUND: (Spanish) "As you can see we are less than 20 metres (65 feet) away from the lava. Of course it is almost unbearable to be here, it is too hot." (++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH PAN TO RIVER OF LAVA COMING DOWN THE VOLCANO SLOPE++)
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San Vicente Pacaya, 28 May 2010
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4. Ambulance arriving to village
5. Various of firefighters and paramedics carrying body of television reporter Anibal Archila
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NUESTRO DIARIO - NO ACCESS GUATEMALA
Outskirts of Guatemala City, 28 May 2010
6. Mid of people taking shelter at sports centre
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Luis Aceituno, neighbour (not an evacuated person):
"We were always in coordination with the town authorities to be able to provide the right help to the people who are sheltering here."
8. Mid of people taking shelter inside sports centre
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Guatemala City, 28 May 2010
9. Various of municipal worker cleaning up the ash in downtown part of the city
STORYLINE
The eruption of the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala claimed the life of a local television reporter on Friday and left three children missing, according to local officials.
A spokesman for the national disaster agency said Anibal Archila, a Noti Siete (Channel 7) reporter, was killed by a shower of burning rocks when he got too close to the volcano, about 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Guatemala City.
The last images of Archila broadcast by Channel 7 television on Thursday show him standing in front of a lava river and burning trees, talking about the intense heat.
The spokesman for the national disaster committee also said that the three missing children were aged between seven and 12 years old.
Pacaya started spewing lava and rocks on Thursday afternoon, covering the Guatemalan capital with ash.
The government says it has evacuated 1,600 people from near the volcano and has shut down the city's international airport.
President Alvaro Colom decreed a "state of calamity" on Thursday.
The volcano's eruption lost some intensity on Friday, though ash still rained heavily on nearby communities and constant explosions continued to shake the 8,373-foot (2,552 meter) mountain, according to the Central American country's Geophysical Research and Services Unit.
The unit reported an ash plume three-thousand feet (one-thousand metres) high that trailed more than 12 miles (20 kilometres) to the northwest.
In Guatemala City, bulldozers scraped the blackened streets while residents used shovels to clean their cars and roofs, carrying out large rubbish bags filled with ash into the streets.
City officials pleaded with residents not to dump the ash into sewers.
The blanket of ash was three inches (7.5 centimetres) thick in some southern parts of the city, and officials imposed limits on trucks and motorcycles to help speed up traffic.
The government urged residents not to leave their homes unless there was an urgent need.
Some took refuge at a sports centre on the outskirts of the capital.
La Aurora airport will be closed at least until Saturday as crews clean up, according to a spokeswoman for Civil Aviation.
Flights were being diverted to the Mundo Maya airport in northern Guatemala and Comalapa in El Salvador.
While the Guatemala eruption shut down local flights, it was not expected to affect airports in neighbouring countries like Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano did.
The most active of Guatemala's 32 volcanoes, Pacaya has been intermittently erupting since 1966, and tourists frequently visit areas near three lava flows formed in eruptions between 1989 and 1991.
In 1998, the 8,373-foot (2,552-metre) volcano twice spewed plumes of ash, forcing evacuations and shutting down the airport in Guatemala City.
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