narror mothesall need a closer look at the smokg crater here, they confront the odds of disaster.en that yes, now we have magma in the crater, all the way to the summit of the mountain, all we need is some big explosions to get that lava out and down the flanks of the volcano. narrator: but rather than send out a red alert, the scientists still show restraint. so they are surprised in october when the president of ecuador comes to baños and overreacts to their less acute orange alert. hall: he decided right then that we need an evacuation, we need it now. narrator: the military forces 2500 tourists and resid to evacue all areas surrounding tuurua. ( sirensling ) en lo de doña inés; yo me voy ahora. ( man making aouement over loudspeaker ) even more disruptive: ey have 36 hours to leave. mothes: the institute had recommended that this evacuation could take place over a period of days, not in a day and a half, because we didn't see the volcano was yet that ready to erupt. narrator: they also disagree with the government about a partl evacuation. we have always had an opinion that th