In 1995, I was finishing High School, when the Fogo volcano erupted on Cape Verde Island. Well, I wasn't on Fogo Island when the eruption began, I was living in Praia, my hometown and the capital of Cape Verde in Santiago Island, which is neighbors Fogo.
It was remarkable because the eruption started after twenty years of inactivity and everybody had believed that that the volcano was extinct. Fortunately, rescue workers and the military did a great job, and nobody was killed. International aids and donations also came in time, and people were evacuated from their homes to temporary accommodations buildings constructed for that purpose.
In Santiago Island we could see the huge smoke that was expelled out from the volcano, and everything we watched on TV was amazing, even though we were all terrified by the phenomenon. The air was very thick and from time to time we could feel the ground trembling, just a small earthquake, but enough to make all of us pray to God for our lives. Last year, this experience cross my mind again, when I heard that another eruption had began, and they said it is stronger than the eruption that occurred in 1995.
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