00:58 Fuego Volcano Changes Landscape in Guatemala Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari looks at how much the El Fuego volcano in Guatemala changed since it's eruption in June 2018.

At a Glance Rescue efforts at the site of a Guatemala volcanic eruption have been made more difficult by rain.

At least 109 people died during Sunday's eruption of Guatemala's Volcano of Fire.

Nearly 200 people are still missing from the blast, officials said.

Authorities ordered new evacuations due to the activity at Guatemala's Volcano of Fire Friday as troublesome climatic conditions and still-smoldering volcanic material continued to create a dangerous situation.

Molten material, water and sediment spilling through four canyons prompted local disaster agency Conred to tell residents in the town of El Rodeo to leave their homes, the Associated Press reports.

Dangerous conditions brought a halt to search efforts Thursday after downpours and additional volcanic activity had hindered rescue efforts in days prior. When crews were able to work in the hardest hit areas, the death toll continued to climb.

The number of confirmed dead rose to 109 after 10 more bodies were taken in by morgues, the National Institute of Forensic Science said. Another 200 remain missing, leading officials to believe the final death toll will be even higher.

The United States announced it will send financial assistance and emergency aid to Guatemala to help with the recovery. Airplanes will also be sent to help transport burn victims to Florida for treatment.

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"Nobody is going to be able to get them out or say how many are buried here," Efrain Suarez said, standing amid the smoking holes dotting what used to be the village of San Miguel Los Lotes on the flanks of the mountain.

"The bodies are already charred," the 59-year-old truck driver said. "And if heavy machinery comes in they will be torn apart."

Rescuers poked metal rods into the ground, sending clouds of smoke pouring into the air in a sign of the super-hot temperatures still remaining below the surface, which firefighters said reached as high as 750 to 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit in some places.

A day after a new evacuation was ordered due to increasing activity by the volcano, a red alert remained in place for the departments of Escuintla, Sacatepequez and Chimaltenango, and people were advised not to linger near the affected zones.

The country's seismology and volcanology institute warned of new flows descending through canyons on the volcano's western slope toward the Pantaleon River, carrying boulders and tree trunks.

At a shelter in the Murray D. Lincoln school in the city of Escuintla, about 10 miles from the volcano's peak, Alfonso Castillo said he and his extended family of 30 had lived on a shared plot in San Miguel Los Lotes where each family had its own home.

The volcano is one of Central America's most active, and everyone was accustomed to rumbling and spewing smoke, so at first nothing seemed unusual Sunday, the 33-year-old farm worker said. But then a huge cloud of ash came pouring out.

"In a matter of three or four minutes the village disappeared," Castillo said. It was smothered in what he described as a "sea" of muck that came crashing into homes, inundating people, pets and wildlife.

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The family holed up in a house that heated up "like a boiler" inside, he said, then made their way onto the roof and then to the upper story of another, concrete home. After a cellphone call to Castillo's brother, rescuers arrived and took the family to safety.

But the life they knew was gone.

"Nobody wants to go back there. My children say they would rather be in the streets. ... There are many people who are helping us, but we have absolutely nothing. We could not get anything out," Castillo said. "For us, there is no tomorrow."

In past disasters in which authorities determined there was no chance of finding survivors and further efforts to recover bodies would be too difficult, areas have been declared burial sites, the final resting place of the victims.

Asked about that possibility, the director of Guatemala's disaster agency, Sergio Cabanas, said: "Not until the search efforts are over, and it would be left up to the people."