NTDTelevision: Simmering Ecuadorian Volcano Spews Ash Sky High
Residents of Baños, Ecuador were doing what little they could on Saturday to clean their town of a thick coating of ash spewed by the "Throat of Fire" volcano after it erupted on Friday.
Loud explosions shook the ground and rattled windows near the volcano forcing residents to flee.
The volcano is known as Tungurahua in the indigenous Quechua language and is 81 miles southeast of Quito.
Baños, a town popular with foreign and local tourists, was among the places evacuated voluntarily and whose resident now must contend, once more, with cleaning up after the volcano.
Tungurahua, a 16 thousand 5 hundred foot volcano, has been classed as active since 1999 and had a strong eruption in 2008.
It is one of eight active volcanoes in Ecuador.
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