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Clouds of ash pour from Mount Pinatubo as the volcano comes to life for the first time in over 600 years. Mount Pinatubo is forcing the U.S. military to conduct Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts during which over 20,000 evacuees will be removed from Clark Air Base, foreground, and Naval Station, Subic Bay

Clouds of ash pour from Mount Pinatubo as the volcano comes alive for the first time in over 600 years. Mount Pinatubo is forcing the U.S. military to conduct Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts to remove over 20,000 evacuees from Clark Air Base, foreground, and Naval Station, Subic Bay

Clouds of smoke from Mount Pinatubo descend upon Clark Air Base as the volcano erupts for the first time in over 600 years. Over 20,000 evacuees are being removed from the area during the U.S. military's Operation Fiery Vigil.

A road grader clears ash from the runway at Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano, which erupted for the first time in over 600 years, forced the U.S. military to coordinate Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts to remove more than 20,000 evacuees from the area

Military personnel assist evacuees arriving from Clark Air Force Base and Naval Station, Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano erupted for the first time in over 600 years, forcing the U.S. military to coordinate Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts to remove more than 20,000 evacuees from the area.

Clouds of ash pour from Mount Pinatubo as the volcano erupts for the first time in over 600 years

Smoke billows from Mount Pinatubo as the volcano erupts for the first time in over 600 years. More than 20,000 evacuees are being removed from the area as a part of the U.S. military's Operation Fiery Vigil.

Ash covers the base in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano, which came alive for the first time in over 600 years, forced the U.S. military to conduct Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts and remove over 20,000 evacuees will be removed from Clark and Naval Station, Subic Bay

Ash covers a vehicle following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that came alive for the first time in over 600 years. More than 20,000 evacuees have been removed from the area as part of the U.S. military's Operation Fiery Vigil

Clouds of ash pour from Mount Pinatubo as the volcano comes to life for the first time in over 600 years. Mount Pinatubo is forcing the U.S. military to conduct Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts during which over 20,000 evacuees will be removed from Clark Air Base, foreground, and Naval Station, Subic Bay

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Subject Operation/Series: FIERY VIGIL

Base: Clark Air Base

State: Luzon

Country: Philippines (PHL)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Val Gempis

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/06/1991
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label_outline Explore Vigil Evacuation Efforts, Fiery Vigil, Subic

Clouds of ash pour from Mount Pinatubo as the volcano erupts for the first time in over 600 years

A worker uses a loader to remove ash and debris from yards in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano erupted for the first time in over 600 years on June 10th and covered the area in ash and debris

Erlinda Gale, wife of an airman at Clark Air Base, Philippines, receives a bowl of soup from a volunteer at the Military Airlift Command terminal during Operation Fiery Vigil. McChord is a stopover for hundreds of U.S. Air Force and Navy personnel, civilian employees and their dependents being evacuated from the Philippines after fallen ash from the erruption of Mount Pinatubo collapsed buildings and disrupted operations on military bases.

Some of the 20,000 military and civilian personnel being evacuated from the Philippines wait for buses during Operation Fiery Vigil. The evacuation is the result of the June 10 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which deposited more than four inches of volcanic ash on the Philippine Islands, disrupting base operations

CHIEF Hospital Corpsman Dirk Waldron reassures a child in a medical treatment center set up for evacuees from Naval Station, Subic Bay and Naval Air Station, Cubi Point. The evacuation is taking place as part of Operation Fiery Vigil, an effort to remove civilian and military personnel and their dependents from the Philippines in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption on June 10th.

A package identifies the origin of medical supplies being delivered by members of the West Virginia Air National Guard 167th Tactical Airlift Group on a combined training and humanitarian mission. Filipino doctors living in West Virginia led an effort of the Charleston Area Medical Center to donate over 49,000 pounds of medicine, equipment and hospital beds

STS050-52-033 - STS-050 - Mt. Pinatubo, post eruption, Island of Luzon, The Philippines.

SSGT James L. Nelson, a crew chief from McChord's 62nd Aircraft Generation Squadron, carries a fuel hose during the refueling of Malaysian airliner during Operation Fiery Vigil. Civilian aircraft are being used to help evacuate hundreds of U.S. Air Force and navy personnel, civilian employees and their dependents from the Philippines after fallen ash from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo collapsed buildings and disrupted operations on military bases.

A view of two gunnery targets at the Crow Valley bombing range, the site of exercise Cope Tora '90, a Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) bombing and gunnery exercise

A sailor from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) processes evacuees as they prepare to depart from the area aboard the vessel in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano, which erupted for the first time in over 600 years, forced the U.S. military to coordinate Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts to remove more than 20,000 evacuees from the area

A C-130 Hercules aircraft stands on an ash-covered runway as a cameraman films the area in the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that came alive on June 10th for the first time in over 600 years

STS050-52-029 - STS-050 - Mt. Pinatubo, post eruption, Island of Luzon, The Philippines.

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