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RININAHUE, Chile — Steaming rivers filled with hot ash, rocks and rain threatened to overflow their banks in southern Chile on Friday, and ash clouds from a volcano that began erupting nearly a week ago kept some airports closed across much of the southern part of the continent.
In towns bordering the Cordon Caulle volcano, authorities warned that rivers were about to flood because of the large amounts of ash and volcanic rock that have fallen in them and heavy rains that have doused the area of southern Chile. About 3,500 residents had been evacuated.
