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Jun
Helga Arnadottir, a spokeswoman, said this is the fifth evacuation order since the volcano came back to life last year. The evacuation went “as smoothly as previous ones,” Ms. Arnadottir added. It took hotel guests about a half hour to evacuate her, she said. Another 300 people had to relocate from Grindavik, a fishing town that has been largely abandoned since January after lava and earthquakes from previous eruptions destroyed parts of it. The government has offered to buy all the residential houses in Grindavik to allow residents to move elsewhere. Almost all the owners in the area have decided…
