The enthusiastic tourists flow to Mount Etna in Sicily to see impressive revolutions on the volcano, but local officials are now asking them to stop them, saying that their roads that are due to obstructing rescue services and responding to emergency situations.
The first Mount Etna’s eruption intensified in 2025 during the weekend, which led to large flows of volcanic lava that was cut through the deep snow package on the mountain and pushed thousands of tourists to climb the Sicilian slope to take a better look.
The lava flows from a fracture on the Etna Mountain during the volcano eruption on February 14, 2025.
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in Posted to Facebook On Sunday, Salvo Kokina, head of regional civil protection in Sicily, described how the narrow streets leading to the volcano were full of parked cars and traffic jams, making it impossible for emergency cars to reach the site.
He also wrote that four people were seriously injured, on Sunday. At night hours between Sunday and Monday, other people were rescued, including a woman who had a “panic attack”, all of whom were not equipped or prepared correctly for the trip.
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The mayor of Adrano, one of the closest communities to the last eruption, has even issued an order during the weekend that prohibits anyone from Get a distance of 500 meters From lava flow.
The view of the Etna Mountain, which was seen from Adrano, Catania, which produces a new eruption, on February 14, 2025.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the regime has been greatly ignored. Hundreds of videos were published on social media, according to the guardian reports, which shows curious spectators Get within centimeters From volcanic lava flows – and even some people ski next to one melted river.
“I have seen many pictures and videos of people Dangerous close “To the front, and even ski,” Carlo Kapoto, the nearby municipality of Bilbaso, told the Guardian. “Although amazingly visually, it exposes them to serious risks, as lava, which interacts with snow, can evaporate it immediately, and with the release of thermal energy, it may receive violent fragments or rocks.”
A view of the ETNA Mountain seen from Adrano, Catania, which produces a new eruption on February 11, 2025.
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Mount Etna is known to explode frequently, and until February 11, a new incision has been opened on the southwestern Bocca Nuova, which led to multiple lava flows to the surface. By Monday, ash emissions of the hole became so thick that air traffic around Sicily has disrupted and dozens of flights from Katania Airport.
As of the two, The lava has advanced About four kilometers below the slope, Italian news reports.
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