Volcano Page #5

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And, besides, this guy's a lot... taller.

Look, Chief, I'm swamped right now.

I'll call you back.

- What the hell is that?

- Yes. All right, Reese out.

You guys seeing this sh*t?

What can only be described as lava

is now snaking its way

down Stanley Avenue,just off Wilshire.

This is StanleyAvenue,just offWilshire. The

house behindmejust explodedinto flames

and, to put it bluntly,

all hell is breaking loose.

You can see the panic in residents' faces.

The fear and distress...

God knows what it is,

but something fiery is raining down.

It's a warzone here!

- My dog is in there.

- You can't go in.

But my dog is in there. Phil, come here, boy!

- My dog is in there!

- You just gotta hang on in. He'll be OK.

Phil! Come here, boy.

Come here, Phil.

Oh, Phil! Oh, you good dog.

You got it. You got it, boy.

It's my house, man. I was born in that house.

I know, I know.

Fire trucks! How come I see no fire trucks?

- They're up on Wilshire.

- I'm gonna get some help.

- Um, I think you should pull over.

- Why?

Because this guy's leg, it's like gushing.

There's a blanket underneath him.

Get it and press it down over the wound hard.

I think you should just...

If I don't get to the hospital, I'll lose

both these guys. Now, do what I tell you

and help me out here.

Look, Kelly, I know you're scared.

I'm scared, too.

So I'm gonna need your help.

Help me, OK?

No-one has any idea

what to put in the way of this lava.

Declaration of emergency,

assistance from county, state and federal.

All available National Guard units

and air tankers. We need water dropped.

OK, listen, Mike. I've got a bunch of meds

coming in. I'll ride 'em over to Midway, OK?

No, send 'em to Cedars. That's where

we're sending patients. Safest place.

All right, Cedars. Good.

I got a message from Sindelar. He's stuck

on "the damn freeway." Wants me to tell you..

- I've got a desk. That's where I work.

- ..yadda yadda yadda.

- Tell him not to expect me. Out.

- No problem.

Mitch, it's a chaotic scene,

with emergency personnel

desperate to stop this thing.

Officer,

do you know where the driver of that bus is?

- What are you talking about?

- Come with me. Come on.

..rolling past

the foot of County Art Museum,...

We now have a name for this crisis.

It is, according to the US Geological Survey,

a volcano.

Yes, you heard that correctly.

As remarkable as itsounds, a volcano here

- Excuse me!

- is wreaking havoc throughout the city...

Oh, my God.

You would have loved this, Rachel.

- Cover! Cover!

- Hey.

Hey, no. Look at it. Keep watching it.

Now! Move, you guys!

It's a lava bomb.

You don't do anything un...

until you know where it's gonna land.

I need 20 strong men standing right here.

Go get those firemen right now,

and those officers right there.

Get over here, guys. Over by this bus.

- Right now. Let's go, hurry up.

- God, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy.

That's cos he deals with man's inclination

to a thing, in defiance of God's will.

I didn't mean it like that.

Oh.

Fellas, come over here.

- Right over here. You were right.

- Hardly.

Gentlemen, I want to move the bus

up against the museum like so.

Like so!?

Yes, like so. Then I wanna

shoot out the tyres on the other side.

I cannot turn it over

unless the tyres on one side are flat, all right?

What we wanna do is build a corridor

to keep whatever this is...

It's lava.

All right, it's lava.

Get round to the front, fellas. Hurry up.

Get around the front of the bus.

All right, on the count ofthree, fellas.

One,... two

three.

Come on. Police officers on the other side,

shoot out those tyres.

The rest of you guys, along this bus.

Come here.

All right, on the countdown, aim low.

Three, two, one, fire.

All right, we know that stuff is lava.

What do I do next?

You have to evacuate the West Side. This'll

burn through the city till it hits the ocean.

- It has a million people.

- There'll be a million dead or homeless.

This is going to destroy

everything it touches.

- He's still breathing. Can you grab this arm?

- Yeah.

Grab him right there.

Let's go, let's go!

Let's get this guy out.

Are you realising what we're dealing with?

This is a volcano.

- All we can do is get out of its way.

- Run for the hills and hide?

- Right.

- I can't do that.

Look out!

Look out!

Stay with this guy. Stay with him.

Hey, get that ladder over here now!

Bring it down!

- What're you gonna do?

- Get us outta here if I can.

Hey, watch out for those flames!

Get that ladder out of the fire!

The hose is gonna burn!

- Clear!

- Ah!

- Outta here. Move!

- We're not gonna do this.

Pull him out!

- Move!

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, God. Oh, God.

- Hang on.

- Push him in!

- I can't. The ladder's bust. Too much weight.

- I'm gonna have to swing 'em over.

- Move it!

- Couldn't he swing us the other way?

- I'll ask him when we get down.

The hose is burning! The hose is on fire!

- Argh!

- Sh*t!

- Hold on!

- I'm holding on!

Faster. Move it. They're cookin' up there!

My feet are burning! My feet are burning!

Keep the guy still!

The ladder's gonna give!

- My foot!

- Keep it still!

- The ladder's going. We're losing it.

- Keep still! You're moving us!

- Move it.

- Hang on!

Stop kicking! Argh!

Oh!

Oh, my God!

This guy needs oxygen!

Get him over to Cedars right away.

You all right?

Oh... I'm sorry. Sorry.

- Are you all right!?

- Yeah, I've never been better.

So, what do we do now? Come on.

That lava is coming from a vent.

Bad news is there could be other vents,

bigger ones, maybe ten times as big,

which means we may not have seen

the main eruption yet.

- You think that's gonna happen?

- I need specifics, a phone.

- Your phone! Give me that.

- Hey! I need that back.

- I'm on the air. I need that back.

- Stay where you are. Stay where you are!

- Hey, lava's moving round the bus!

- Give me that phone.

- Hey, that's property of KNX.

- Not any more, pal.

All right, Emmit,

get me 200 K-rails to build a corridor.

- What are K-rails?

- They're concrete freeway dividers.

You planning on channelling this?

- I'm on the telephone, all right.

- Sorry.

Mike, I'll call Public Works.

They could have some.

- Roark?

- Yeah, and any private contractor we have...

Roark!

Hell!

And call Gator. Cedars is gonna be swamped.

I want him over there.

You don't want him with you?

No, Kelly is on her way to Cedars now.

She got burnt, Emmit.

Sh*t.

She'll have a suite

by the time the sun comes up, all right?

All right. Out. What?

The bus is just deflecting this, OK?

It is coming back around. It's got in the store.

We are dealing with determined stuff here.

All right,

we'll build berms until the K-rails get here.

- With what?

- We'll dig up the streets, we'll improvise.

Literally hundreds of firemen,

police, city workers have grabbed pickaxes

to try to channel this down...

..the ash and the smoke in the air right now.

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