Send a helicopter to throw water over them because they are burning,” she said. Other families experienced similar tragedies.Īs President Jimmy Morales toured the area and met with survivors on Monday, a woman begged him to help her loved ones in Los Lotes. “The people ended up buried in nearly 3 meters of lava,” Ortiz said. So far only the body of one relative, her 28-year-old cousin, Cesar Gudiel Escalante, has been recovered and identified. The couple has been staying at a Mormon church in the nearby city of Escuintla and going to a morgue there to await news. Hernandez and her husband, Francisco Ortiz, survived because they moved out of Los Lotes just two months ago to begin a new life on a small plot of land. Her brother and sister made it to safety, but their grandmother has not been seen again. “She said that it was God’s will, she was not going to flee,” Hernandez said. On Sunday, when the volcano exploded in a massive cloud of ash and molten rock, Hernandez said her brother and sister ran to check on their 70-year-old grandmother on the family’s plot of land in the village of San Miguel Los Lotes. “You have to be prepared, for the children,” he said.Įven in more distant central Escuintla, which hosts most of the shelters for those evacuated from other areas, businesses were closed as people left. Dozens of people could be seen walking down roadsides carrying children or a few belongings beside paralyzed traffic in parts of Escuintla township south of the volcano.Ī lucky few, like retiree Pantaleon Garcia, was able to load his grandchildren into the back of a pickup with a jug of water and some food, to go to stay with relatives in another town. The new evacuation order set off a panic even in areas that were not under it.
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