The Jakarta Post | Fri, 03/13/2009 4:26 PM
The Malang chapter of the Indonesian Red Cross has assembled 400 volunteers to participate in a team that is being prepared for an evacuation process on the possibility of the volcanic eruption of Mount Semeru.
The volunteers are local residents in villages spread around the hills of the mountain such as the Poncokusumo village, Ampelgading, Dampit and Tortoyudo.
A team has been made available by the Red Cross to train the volunteers on disaster management, evacuation methods, shelter management and simple medical treatments.
“It will be them who will give the first aid to victims, while also engaging in disaster management and making daily reports,” said head of Red Cross disaster management team Muji Utomo on Friday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Utomo predicted that the Semeru eruption would not have a significant impact on those living in Malang regency because the stream of lava from the crater would not reach residential areas.
“What we are concern of is the volcanic ash and the heat gas from the eruption,” he said. (and)
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