A10 The BulleTin • Monday, May 24, 2021
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TODAY
TUESDAY
TONIGHT
LOW
41°
41°
HIGH
65°
Mostly cloudy, showers
around in the p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Yesterday Normal
Record
64°
67° 93° in 2001
37°
38° 19° in 1964
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.15"
Record
0.64" in 1958
Month to date (normal)
0.59" (0.63")
Year to date (normal)
1.96" (4.76")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.08"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Today
Tue.
5:30am/8:34pm 5:30am/8:35pm
6:40pm/4:31am 8:04pm/5:01am
6:38am/10:16pm 6:36am/10:13pm
6:24am/9:52pm 6:25am/9:54pm
8:35am/12:01am 8:34am/11:59pm
1:53am/12:25pm 1:49am/12:22pm
1:08am/10:54am 1:04am/10:50am
4:30am/6:38pm 4:26am/6:34pm
Last
New
First
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May 26
Jun 2
Jun 10
Jun 17
Tonight's sky: Gemini, the twins, is to the left
of Orion and is in the southwest.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
1
4
6
2
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Grasses
Moderate
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
EAST: Partly to mostly
cloudy with a couple
of showers Monday. A
few showers around
Tuesday.
64°
3
e
VP 37 37°
Cloudy with a passing
shower
Astoria
Astoria
57/50
57/50
Seaside
58/49
58/49 #
Cannon Beach
Beach
67/ £ 4
Hillsboro
Portland
Sul?"
Hillsboro
Portland
57/49
57/49
62/52
62/48
62/48 62/52
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47821
86%
Wickiup
75564
38%
Crescent Lake
23955
28%
Ochoco Reservoir
10237
23%
Prineville
83153
56%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
114
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1300
Deschutes R. below Bend
128
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1630
Little Deschutes near La Pine
159
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
16
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
22
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
179
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
56
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
14
67/54
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City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
57/51/0.01 57/50/r
56/47/c
La Grande
66/44/0.00 62/46/sh 63/40/pc
Portland
65/53/Tr
62/52/r
62/48/pc
Baker City
64/36/0.06 62/44/pc 59/35/c
La Pine
60/38/0.00 60/39/sh 57/32/pc
Prineville
63/28/0.00 66/41/sh 57/36/c
Brookings
62/44/0.00 54/48/sh 59/44/pc
Medford
76/45/0.00 72/52/pc 70/44/pc
Redmond
65/34/0.02 65/40/c 62/34/pc
Roseburg
75/42/0.00 66/49/r
65/45/pc
Burns
64/39/0.10 62/39/sh 59/33/sh
Newport
54/50/0.16 54/48/r
54/42/pc
Eugene
64/41/0.00 62/48/r
62/43/pc
North Bend
61/48/0.00 59/50/r
59/45/pc
Salem
66/49/Tr
62/50/r
64/43/c
Klamath Falls
65/37/0.03 66/37/pc 62/31/pc
Ontario
66/39/0.09 71/52/pc 66/45/c
Sisters
61/37/0.08 64/41/pc 61/36/c
Lakeview
59/34/0.14 62/36/pc 58/28/pc
Pendleton
73/40/Tr
70/48/pc 70/44/pc
The Dalles
69/44/0.00 70/53/c 70/48/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
-0s
0s
10s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
6 (-
^3 _A Toronto
\ YÌÙ/57S
^ : \ \ \ \ / • 66/49
/ \w
67/54
Salt Lake
68/53
Kansas
80/67 ,
110s
Phoenix
Juneau
94/68
.
Juffalo
'^fiwYork
0/57
Philadelphia
>9/57^4*
Chariot
M
Chihuahua
92/63 *
‘w Orleans
86/71
^Orlando
90/65
Miami
85/7 5
T-storms
Sunny
Plenty of sunshine
Yesterday
City
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
82/69/0.00
Akron
87/64/0.00
Albany
78/65/Tr
Albuquerque
81/55/0.00
Anchorage
57/43/0.00
Atlanta
90/65/0.00
Atlantic City
88/70/0.00
Austin
73/71/0.23
Baltimore
95/70/0.00
Billings
66/42/0.06
Birmingham
90/61/0.00
Bismarck
72/48/0.02
Boise
63/42/0.02
Boston
90/69/Tr
Bridgeport, CT 90/63/0.00
Buffalo
74/62/0.00
Burlington, VT
76/68/0.04
Caribou, ME
60/58/0.53
Charleston, SC 91/64/0.00
Charlotte
91/60/0.00
Chattanooga
91/64/0.00
Cheyenne
68/48/0.28
Chicago
82/70/0.01
Cincinnati
86/59/0.00
Cleveland
87/65/Tr
Colorado Springs 75/51/0.08
Columbia, MO
87/67/0.00
Columbia, SC
93/59/0.00
Columbus, GA
90/59/0.00
Columbus, OH
89/60/0.00
Concord, NH
86/58/0.01
Corpus Christi
85/72/0.58
Dallas
77/69/0.17
Dayton
86/66/0.00
Denver
74/51/0.31
Des Moines
83/63/0.00
Detroit
87/69/0.32
Duluth
42/40/0.89
El Paso
91/64/0.00
Fairbanks
59/37/Tr
Fargo
77/49/0.06
Flagstaff
62/23/0.00
Grand Rapids
75/64/0.07
Green Bay
71/56/0.00
Greensboro
89/67/0.00
Harrisburg
92/68/0.00
Hartford, CT
87/64/0.03
Helena
43/33/0.44
Honolulu
85/72/0.02
Houston
80/71/0.13
Huntsville
90/59/0.00
Indianapolis
86/61/0.00
Jackson, MS
88/61/0.00
Jacksonville
85/58/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
80/68/t
79/67/t
72/52/pc
82/53/s
60/49/s
91/70/pc
65/58/pc
79/69/t
69/58/sh
68/48/c
91/69/pc
78/52/pc
66/49/pc
65/53/pc
67/55/pc
76/64/c
73/56/pc
64/43/s
93/69/pc
92/69/c
92/67/pc
68/42/s
87/71/t
87/65/c
76/66/sh
75/48/s
84/67/s
95/67/pc
92/67/pc
85/65/t
72/47/pc
82/74/sh
76/70/t
86/66/pc
74/47/s
83/65/t
82/65/pc
63/56/t
93/63/s
69/47/pc
84/55/c
71/31/s
82/66/pc
80/68/c
86/64/c
68/58/pc
73/50/pc
59/43/c
86/73/pc
79/71/sh
91/66/pc
87/65/pc
88/64/pc
91/62/pc
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
57/45/r
86/69/s
61/53/pc
102/73/pc
95/81/t
74/53/pc
77/70/s
70/53/pc
67/51/t
67/52/pc
62/51/s
84/71/pc
91/66/s
50/43/r
85/78/t
57/45/sh
53/45/sh
68/44/c
71/44/s
93/82/t
78/62/pc
74/58/s
67/45/s
67/62/pc
69/53/pc
55/45/sh
74/50/pc
97/83/s
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
85/69/t
86/68/pc
76/62/c
84/56/s
64/50/s
91/70/pc
69/64/pc
82/69/t
77/65/pc
68/47/pc
91/68/pc
70/43/pc
63/44/c
75/63/pc
70/61/pc
83/69/t
79/68/pc
78/63/pc
91/69/pc
89/67/pc
90/67/pc
71/45/pc
84/68/t
87/68/pc
87/69/pc
75/51/s
78/66/t
95/67/c
94/68/pc
88/68/pc
81/59/pc
83/75/t
82/71/t
87/68/pc
77/52/s
77/61/t
88/67/t
80/48/pc
94/65/s
67/43/s
77/38/pc
73/38/s
82/63/t
81/64/t
82/65/c
77/65/pc
76/61/pc
64/44/pc
87/73/s
82/73/t
91/66/pc
85/65/c
87/66/s
93/64/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
52/43/0.75
81/64/0.02
84/67/0.11
80/55/0.00
86/58/0.00
86/65/0.00
85/64/0.00
72/53/0.00
90/65/0.00
79/68/0.22
87/65/0.00
84/74/0.00
76/71/0.58
80/70/Tr
91/61/0.00
87/68/0.00
88/73/0.02
94/75/0.00
93/74/0.00
72/66/0.06
83/67/Tr
87/63/0.00
89/58/0.00
84/66/0.00
92/74/0.00
88/59/0.00
87/64/0.00
84/60/Tr
90/68/0.00
92/64/0.00
65/46/1.52
63/42/0.01
93/69/Tr
78/62/Tr
80/52/0.00
89/65/0.00
62/43/0.51
78/71/0.27
70/54/0.00
65/53/0.00
69/49/0.00
76/56/Tr
90/62/0.00
64/51/0.00
86/59/Tr
68/37/0.00
83/63/0.00
88/70/Tr
87/53/0.00
75/68/0.03
94/74/0.00
73/66/0.02
77/37/0.00
88/58/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
54/43/sh
80/67/pc
79/66/sh
87/68/s
85/63/pc
81/66/t
87/67/pc
86/64/s
90/68/pc
83/68/t
89/71/pc
85/74/s
80/69/pc
81/67/c
90/66/pc
86/71/pc
67/57/pc
68/57/pc
72/62/t
72/66/t
81/66/t
90/65/s
99/73/s
85/68/s
69/57/c
94/68/s
76/64/t
62/50/pc
67/49/pc
89/65/t
72/45/s
75/49/s
77/60/t
73/60/pc
86/55/s
89/72/s
68/53/s
80/71/t
73/61/pc
67/54/s
76/54/s
78/44/s
94/65/pc
59/51/r
79/63/c
67/47/c
79/65/pc
91/71/s
92/60/s
74/67/t
69/60/t
75/66/t
71/46/pc
96/63/s
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
56/43/c
77/67/t
84/65/t
94/69/s
87/66/pc
81/58/t
83/68/t
83/62/s
91/72/pc
79/64/t
88/71/s
86/75/s
82/66/t
85/56/c
90/68/pc
87/71/pc
73/64/pc
77/65/pc
79/68/pc
80/67/t
80/59/t
92/67/s
101/71/s
80/66/t
75/64/pc
99/72/s
86/67/t
72/61/pc
69/59/pc
84/67/t
72/43/pc
72/44/pc
81/67/pc
86/70/t
82/50/s
85/70/t
77/53/pc
84/73/t
74/61/pc
65/50/pc
72/50/s
81/46/s
94/67/pc
62/48/pc
83/54/s
65/47/pc
76/65/t
93/72/s
96/65/s
80/70/t
78/69/pc
81/64/t
70/42/pc
99/65/s
104/82/0.00
78/57/0.10
68/64/0.08
72/52/0.00
76/59/0.00
82/72/0.00
90/77/0.00
80/57/0.06
52/43/0.63
66/59/0.07
64/48/0.00
84/74/0.00
72/63/0.02
68/35/0.00
70/63/0.01
68/55/0.02
78/55/0.00
70/62/0.19
89/79/0.00
53/37/0.68
65/54/0.21
93/79/0.00
77/66/0.00
75/63/0.00
77/66/0.00
61/54/0.01
59/48/0.44
64/46/0.03
104/77/s
77/57/t
69/52/s
68/49/pc
74/57/r
83/73/s
99/78/s
76/62/sh
53/45/sh
71/52/s
60/46/pc
76/67/c
77/56/t
66/38/s
69/49/pc
64/54/c
74/54/s
82/67/s
89/80/t
54/41/pc
68/55/pc
101/79/t
79/67/s
78/66/pc
70/57/pc
58/52/r
63/53/pc
69/54/pc
106/80/s
79/59/t
80/69/sh
70/52/pc
75/56/pc
84/74/s
101/79/s
77/62/pc
58/44/r
80/66/sh
61/49/sh
75/66/pc
73/53/pc
69/40/s
71/52/pc
67/51/pc
68/52/sh
88/67/pc
89/79/pc
57/45/sh
69/57/pc
87/79/pc
81/69/s
79/65/pc
86/69/t
61/50/sh
58/42/t
66/47/r
INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL
louiswlle
90/68
Albuquerque
82/53 •
Honolulu
86/73
100s
Portlanc
62/52
FIRE INDEX
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
90s
' 59/51
48 contiguous states)
National high: 99°
at Presidio, TX
National low: 15°
at Grand Canyon, AZ
Precipitation: 1.59"
at Ellsworth AFB, SD
VfO
NATIONAL
# 73/54 #
.
76°
46°
46°
¿ k *4
TRAVEL WEATHER
Rufus
75/54 Lostine
73/54 Arlington
75/54 Meacham
Arlington
Meacham Lostine
#
72/50
Wasco 72/50
60/43 Enterprise
Enter P rise
Wasco
Pendleton
# 9/43 60/43 59/43
Pendleton
The Dal Dalles
Ttle
CENTRAL: A couple
Tillamook •
* .60/41
Tillamook
* *
' es
60/41
70/51
70/51
70/48
Sandy
70/53
McMinnville
58/50 McMinnville
58/50
of showers may
Honnn
Joseph
Joseph
Heppner
La Grande
60/50
60/50 Government
Me PP n
Maupin
Government
62/46
•
-
Maupin
•
62/46
occur around the area
62/46
62/46
67/47
67/47
Camp
70/51 Condon Condon
*70/51
Union 60/42 60/42
Lincoln
Lincoln City
City
Monday. There can
62/44
52/42
61/46
61/46
Salem Salem
55/48
55/48
*
Spray
62/44 Spray
also be a few showers
*
w 52/4 <f '
Granite .
Warm Springs
62/50
Madras
67/43
62/50 Albany
Sf™ 5 . ««g™»
*67/43
Albany
53/38
53/38
Tuesday.
Newport
Newport
• Baker
Baker City
City
66/43
67/43
Mitchell
Mitchell
54/48
54/48 •
61/48
62/44
. »61/48
„
•
62/44
WEST: Mostly cloudy
Camp Sherman
Corvallis C™pShei™n
62/41
62/41
Redmond Redmond
Corvallis
•John
John
Yachats
•Unity
Unity
with a bit of rain
61/42
65/40
60/47
60/47
65/ 40
Day
Prineville
53/48 *
61/41
53/48
61/41
c Sisters
Monday. Some sun
Ontario
Ontario
ictprc - . •Prineville
gjsrers
66/41 66/41 0 Paulina
Paulina
62/45
62/45
71/52
71/52
will emerge from the
64/41
Florence
Eugene b4/41 . Ben
d Brothers Bend
62/40
.Eugene
Brothers 62/40
Vale •
clouds Tuesday; a
55/50
55/50 *
62/48
/48 sunriver. 65/41 .60/37
60/37
62
Sunriver 65/41
70/53
70/53
passing shower.
Nyssa
60/40 . La Pine
60/40
Cottage
* . Hampton Hampton
La Pine
71/52
71/52
Juntura
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
Grove Oakridge
60/39
62/37
60/39
62/37
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
• Burns
Burns
69/47
69/47
64/46
64/46 63/45 63/45
•
Fort Rock
Rock
59/49
59/49
62/39
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent • 64/36 64/36
63/38
63/38
59/37
High: 77°
59/37
Bandon
* Roseburg
# Bandon
Christmas Valley
Valley
Christmas
Jordan
Jordan Valley
Valley
at Grants Pass
Beaver
Frenchglen
Frenchglen
Silver
Silver
57/49
57/49
66/49
66/49
65/38
65/38
63/43 •
63/43
Low: 28°
Marsh
Lake
65/44
65/44
Port Orford
60/35
Orford
60/35
65/36
65/36
at Prineville
Grants
• Burns Junction
Junction
Paisley
# Paisley
55/49
• 55/49
Pass
Chiloquin
Chiloquin
# 66/46
64/36
64/36
75/50
75/50
Rome
Medford
63/38
Medford
63/38
Gold Beach
72/52
72/52
68/47
68/47
54/47
• 54/47
Klamath
Klamath
Fields
#; AccuWeather
•Ashland
Ashland
McDermitt
McDermitt
* Lakeview
Falls
•Falls
Brookings
Brookings
70/44
70/44
Plan with confidence
70/50
70/50
66/37
67/40
66/37
67/40
54/48
• 54/48
62/36
62/36
-10s
'ni
Sunshine and patchy
clouds
Umatilla
Umatilla
75/53
75/53
• Hermiston
Hermiston
Hooc |
Hood
Rj ver
River
SUNDAY
70°
41
41°
Shown is is today’s
today’s weather.
weather. Temperatures
Temperatures are are
today’s
highs
tonight’s
lows.
Shown
today’s
highs
and and
tonight’s
lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
SATURDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Rise/Set
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Full
FRIDAY
68°
41°
Partly sunny, pleasant and
warmer
Times of clouds and sun
ALMANAC
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
74°
46°
60°
36°
36°
Partly cloudy
THURSDAY
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: USDA Forest Service
57/46/0.78
83/41/0.00
58/53/0.08
98/79/0.00
95/82/0.00
79/58/0.00
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TikTok video drew hundreds
to California party; 150 arrested
A birthday party invitation that
went viral on TikTok brought hun-
dreds of people to a raucous celebra-
tion on a Southern California beach
Saturday night, prompting police to
declare an unlawful assembly and ar-
rest about 150 people after they re-
fused orders to disperse.
The massive gathering began with
a now-deleted video posted on the
popular social media app from a user
named adrian.lopez517, who in-
vited anyone to his birthday party by
Huntington Beach’s fire pits Saturday
night. The hashtag “AdriansKickBack”
received more than 180 million views
on TikTok.
One partygoer told a New York
Times reporter: “It’s the first lit party
since COVID.”
At least 400 people showed up as
early as Friday evening around a life-
guard tower, police Lt. Brian Smith said.
An even larger crowd showed up Satur-
day. Police estimated that at least 2,500
people gathered at the beach before
moving to the downtown area. Officers
again ordered the crowd to disperse and
issued an overnight curfew.
The people arrested included 121
adults and 28 juveniles who were
booked for vandalism, illegally setting
fireworks, failing to disperse and vio-
lating curfews.
Mountaintop cable car plunges
to the ground, killing 13 in Italy
A cable car taking visitors to a moun-
taintop view of some of northern Italy’s
most picturesque lakes plummeted to
the ground Sunday and then tumbled
down the slope, killing 13 people and
sending two children to the hospital in
serious condition, authorities said.
Stresa Mayor Marcella Severino said
it appeared a cable broke, sending the
car careening until it hit a pylon and
then fell to the ground. At that point,
the car overturned “two or three times
before hitting some trees,” she said.
Some of those who died were thrown
from the cabin.
Images from the site showed the
crumpled car in a clearing of a thick
patch of pine trees near the summit of
the Mottarone peak overlooking Lake
Maggiore. The car was believed to
have fallen around 15 meters, accord-
ing to Italian media.
“It was a terrible, terrible scene,”
Severino told Italy’s SkyTG24.
— Bulletin wire reports
People gather on a stream of cold lava rock following the overnight eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in Goma, Congo, on Sunday.
Congo eruption, chaos leave 15 dead
BY JUSTIN KABUMBA KATUMWA
Associated Press
GOMA, Congo — Torrents of lava
poured into villages after dark in east-
ern Congo with little warning, leav-
ing at least 15 people dead amid the
chaos and destroying more than 500
homes, officials and survivors said
Sunday.
The eruption of Mount Ny-
iragongo on Saturday night sent
about 5,000 people fleeing from
the city of Goma across the nearby
border into Rwanda, while another
25,000 others sought refuge to the
northwest in Sake, the U.N. children’s
agency said Sunday.
More than 170 children were still
feared missing Sunday and UNICEF
officials said they were organizing
transit centers to help unaccompanied
children in the wake of the disaster.
Goma ultimately was largely spared
the mass destruction it suffered the
last time the volcano erupted back in
2002. Hundreds died then and more
than 100,000 people were left home-
less. But in outlying villages closer to
the volcano, Sunday was marked by
grief and uncertainty.
Aline Bichikwebo and her baby
Justin Kabumba/AP photos
Lava from Nyiragongo’s eruption spreads out near Goma, a city of nearly 2 million.
managed to escape when the lava
flow reached her village, but said both
her mother and father were among
those who perished. Community
members gave a provisional toll of 10
dead in Bugamba alone, though pro-
vincial authorities said it was too soon
to know how many lives were lost.
Bichikwebo says she tried to rescue
her father but wasn’t strong enough to
move him to safety before the family’s
home was ignited by lava.
“I am asking for help because ev-
erything we had is gone,” she said,
clutching her baby. “We don’t even
have a pot. We are now orphans and
we have nothing.”
The air remained thick with smoke
because of how many homes had
caught fire when the lava came.
“People are still panicking and are
hungry,” resident Alumba Sutoye
said. “They don’t even know where
they are going to spend the night.”
Elsewhere, authorities said at least
five other people had died in a truck
crash while they were trying to evac-
uate Goma, but the scale of the loss
had yet to be determined in some of
the hardest-hit communities.
Residents said there was little
warning before the dark sky turned
a fiery red, sending people running
for their lives in all directions. One
woman went into labor and gave
birth while fleeing the eruption to
Rwanda, the national broadcaster
there said.
Smoke rose from smoldering heaps
of lava in the Buhene area near the
city Sunday.
“We have seen the loss of almost an
entire neighborhood,” Innocent Ba-
hala Shamavu said. “All the houses in
Buhene neighborhood were burned
and that’s why we are asking all the
provincial authorities and authorities
at the national level as well as all the
partners, all the people of good faith
in the world, to come to the aid of this
population.”