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00:00 This amateur footage captures the moment sirens began to sound.
00:06 The glow of the volcanic eruption can be seen in the distance as bathers are rushed out
00:11 of this luxury geothermic resort.
00:13 "Everybody seemed to handle it very well.
00:17 Some people drove cars, then us, we took the bus into town.
00:22 So it was pretty, they handled it very, very well.
00:24 No one seemed out of control or crying or anything.
00:27 Everybody was steady and prepared and they prepared it very well and took good care of
00:32 us to make sure we all got out okay."
00:39 On Saturday evening, authorities gave an evacuation warning just 15 minutes before molten rock
00:44 began soaring from a three-kilometre-long fissure on the southern Reykjanes peninsula,
00:49 just 50 kilometres from the capital.
00:53 Despite initial concerns for a crucial pipeline, barriers have been successful in steering
00:58 the lava away from infrastructure, including a power plant and a fishing town of some 4,000
01:03 residents.
01:04 "The rate of lava flow is getting lower and lower it seems like and the barriers that
01:09 were built around the town, they are diverting the flow around it.
01:13 Most of the flow is going east of the town towards the sea so it looks like the barriers
01:19 are really doing the job they were designed for."
01:22 The eruption was the seventh on this peninsula since 2021.
01:26 Before then, the volcano had lain dormant for eight centuries.