It has burned dozens of homes, forced people to flee and shot up plumes of steam from its ... with a river of molten rock flowing into the ocean and flying lava causing the first major injury.

This unexpected eruption has left many stunned, especially since Mount Etna had been showing signs of increased activity, but ...

Lava that's flying through the air from cracks in the ... Lava flows have sped up as fresher magma mixes with decades-old magma, creating hotter and more fluid flows, scientists said.

Turpin praised the people caught up in the incident and visited one woman ... for a man who broke his leg after being hit by flying lava.

Local officials are constantly warning visitors about the dangers of a bench collapse, which can set off enormous explosions and kick up big ... and the flying globs of lava really stood out.

"You know, freaky things happen every day," says a man whose foot was nearly blown off by a flying lava bomb on ... passenger seat and holding my leg up in the air so I could keep my foot kind ...

The impact destroyed the smaller body, vaporizing huge amounts of rock and flinging massive plumes of hot lava into space. Spitzer’s infrared detectors were able to pick up the signatures of the ...

(AP Photo/Marco Di Marco)AP Civil defense personnel are on high alert, blocking access to the road leading to the mountain, and flying in a helicopter over the lava floes to monitor volcanic activity.