A huge cloud of ash spewed from Chile’s Calbuco volcano on Wednesday (April 22) as it erupted for the first time in 40 years. <br /><br /> Emergency services declared a red alert and thousands of people evacuated the immediate area as a precaution. <br /><br /> Calbuco is near the cities of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt .. around one thousand kilometers south of Chile’s capital Santiago.<br /><br /> Petrol stations in the region were swamped with motorists waiting in line to fill up their tanks.<br /><br /> People stocking up on food, water and cash.<br /><br /> Calbuco volcano spews giant tower of ash in Chile pic.twitter.com/zQZJcM6fMT— Grasswire (@grasswire) April 23, 2015<br /> <br /><br /> “At the beginning, it was small and later, the cloud grew and later there was a huge cloud over you and true terror starts,” said one resident. “It’s the first time I had lived through this.”<br /><br /> “There was a lot of panic, lots of chaos, traffic jams, people going to supermarkets, everyone looking for water, trying to take out money from the ATMs,” said anoth
