World IN BRIEF : SICILY : Man-Made Barrier Diverts Etna Lava
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Lava poured out of Mt. Etna overnight, but a man-made barricade diverted the flow away from Zafferana, a farming town on the slopes of the volcano, experts said. “One can say that certainly, for some weeks, Zafferana is safe,” one volcanologist, Franco Barberi, told RAI television in an interview from a slope of the 12,000-foot mountain. Since the volcano began erupting in December, molten lava has come to within half a mile of Zafferana, a town of 7,000 that produces honey and fruit.
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