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To: long-gone who wrote (7)	2/27/2000 9:30:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 183

Friday February 25 2:10 PM ET Filipinos Return After Volcano Alert AP Photo By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press Writer LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) - As their neighbors packed by the thousands into overcrowded shelters, hundreds of people defied scientists' warnings Friday and made their way back to villages in the shadow of the 11/2-mile-tall, ash and lava-spewing Mayon volcano. More than 42,000 villagers had been evacuated from danger zones near the volcano's slopes a day after it repeatedly sent fountains of lava and ash into the sky, blocking out the sun. Despite renewed lava flows and warnings that further eruptions are possible, some villagers returned home to guard their fields and animals. Some said they would stay, while others paid short visits to check their houses or collect firewood, water and clothes. In Matanag, a poor farming village at the foot of a gully often followed by lava and streams of deadly superheated ash, (cont) dailynews.yahoo.com