Vol­canic fumes con­tin­ue to hiss from the ex­pan­sive fis­sures of the Pi­paro vol­cano.

And while res­i­dents keep vig­i­lant in the event of an erup­tion, the Cou­va Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion has erect­ed signs warn­ing pedes­tri­ans to stay off the site.

The signs were placed on the two en­trants of the vol­canic site and they read, “Vol­canic Fumes, Oth­er Haz­ards May Ex­ist Be­yond Here. Do Not En­ter.”

Dur­ing an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, res­i­dent Fi­del Solomon said his home con­tin­ues to crack.

“The cracks are widen­ing. The ones on the walls have splin­tered about ten to 15 inch­es wider. I am stay­ing in the house at Pi­paro but the rest of my fam­i­ly has split up. My daugh­ter has not been home since the Sat­ur­day the vol­cano start­ed to act up,” Solomon said.

He added that the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion has promised hous­ing which nev­er ma­te­ri­al­ized.

“They have us in lim­bo for more than two weeks now. Two weeks ago they called and said they iden­ti­fied a house at Union Hall. They said they will call us back to fi­nalise the arrange­ments. One week passed and noth­ing hap­pened. When we called the sec­ond week, they said a house was sourced in Gol­con­da.  We are still wait­ing,” he added.

Solomon said he was get­ting very frus­trat­ed.

“I want my fam­i­ly to­geth­er and I hope they will make good on their promise to as­sist,” Solomon added.

Mean­while, se­nior geo­sci­en­tist at Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration Xavier Moo­nan said they were mon­i­tor­ing the vol­cano. He said gas con­tin­ues to rise from the main vent with a con­stant hiss­ing sound.

“There are small bub­bling pools on the north­ern and the gas is still es­cap­ing along the frac­tures head­ing west­ward and south­ward. A very small vent has ap­peared ap­prox­i­mate­ly 30ft south of the main vent and bub­bles con­stant­ly. “

He al­so said that there is a widen­ing of frac­tures, adding that the south­ern area has gone down­ward by al­most a foot over­all while the north­ern frac­tured area has al­so gone down­ward by eight to ten cen­time­tres.

Res­i­dents from Pi­paro have re­ceived train­ing to as­sist oth­ers when the vol­cano fi­nal­ly blows.

An Emer­gency Evac­u­a­tion map has been shared out to res­i­dents and the plan re­mains that those who live to the west of the vol­cano will ex­it the dis­as­ter zone us­ing Pi­paro Road, to­wards Guaracara Junc­tion and then to the Rivers­dale Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School. Those to the east of the vol­cano will pro­ceed out of Pi­paro Road to Stone Road and then to Pi­paro Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.