Living on a volcano’s edge


The terrain of Solfatara, a volcanic crater, in Pozzuoli. The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

A PIERCING alarm burst from millions of cellphones, a signal to hundreds of thousands of people to pack their bags and flee one of Europe’s most dangerous volcanoes. But most of the Italians who heard it shrugged.

It was around 5pm on a Friday and the alert wasn’t announcing a real crisis.

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