Important Takeaways:

• Terrifying video shows volcano sending hot ash thousands of feet in air over Indonesian villages
• Hot ash rained down on villages southeast of Mount Merapi after several eruptions just in the last month.
• A resident captured a massive volcanic ash cloud shooting 7,800 feet into the air for almost four minutes on Sunday afternoon, according to the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency.
• The photographer was upwind of the prevailing winds and escaped the falling hot ash. Officials have reported no fatalities so far.
• There were four separate lava flows that traveled a little more than a mile down the slope, according to an Indonesian news agency.
• The ash mixed with heavy rain and fog and soaked two villages with muddy, gritty rain.

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