Driving amid the Thick Ash from Taal
Until Tuesday night, Mount Taal continued to spew hot lava as high as 800 meters. Residents living within a 10 km radius area from Taal were ordered to evacuate. Around 24,000 people have left the area.
A group of people in Tagaytay City, the Philippines, watch a column of hot ash rise from Mount Taal on Monday (13/1/2020), when the volcano erupted.
Early Monday morning, at around 1 a.m., Indonesian national Ferin, 31, and a number of colleagues and their family members decided to leave Tagaytay, the Philippines, to evacuate to Manila, the country\'s capital city. The spewing of ash and small rocks from Mount Taal, which is located about 32 kilometers from Tagaytay, has not stopped and was actually getting stronger. Moreover, the Adventist University of the Philippines (AUP) student in Cavite has a 9-month-old baby.
"Along the road, ash piled up between 5 centimeters and 10 cm in thickness," said Ferin, who along with two other members of his family, rushed to Manila in a car.