A spectacular explosion from an Italian volcano Wednesday sent locals and tourists running for cover to avoid a shower of rocks and ash. The eruption of Stromboli, which is on a small island off the coast of Sicily, sent a gigantic plume of smoke billowing into the sky.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Elena Schiera was on a sailboat when the volcano erupted and she captured a nail-biting escape from the pyroclastic flow on her phone camera. "We immediately increased the speed of the boat to the maximum, even though, being a sailboat, the speed was still limited. Then the cloud arrived at sea and began to advance quickly towards us," Schiera said. "At that moment the panic broke out because we had the cloud a few meters away from our stern, but thanks to my father, who was at the helm, we managed to get away just in time because then the cloud started to rise again." No injuries were reported from the eruption.