Fuego erupted Monday morning. By nightfall Guatemala had issued its second-highest alert. This paper's Monday dispatch recorded the start. Tuesday the orange order still holds. [1]

AFP, in a Guardian filing, said lava and ash rose nearly four miles, and that rivers of lava ran down the 3,763-metre cone less than 100 kilometres from Guatemala City. Alejandro Garcia, 68, told AFP the mountain was active from early morning and that the evacuation alarm came that night. [1]

Firefighters moved at least 350 residents of El Porvenir and Las Lajitas to San Juan Alotenango. Escuintla sheltered more families. Conred's Valeria Urizar told residents to self-evacuate if ordered. The volcanology institute warned of hot debris flows on the western and southern flanks. Classes stopped in two municipalities. A road toward Antigua closed. [1]

Lidia Ortiz, 40, told AFP she wanted another house because the volcano gives no warning. Sonia Vasquez, 50, said residents are used to constant activity, "but this time it was really too much." The institute said the eruption had run 23 hours by Tuesday morning as intensity eased. [1]

CNN said authorities still called the volcano dangerous after days of eruption. The 2018 blast killed 215 and left about as many missing. Monday's order is that memory, not a clip. [1][2]

-- LUCIA VEGA, São Paulo