As a result, a crust is formed in the lava, making the operation a success. Roark, Barnes and LAPD police lieutenant Ed Fox devise a plan to use concrete barriers to create a cul-de-sac, pooling the lava as helicopters and firefighters dump water on it.
Olber jumps from the train and throws the driver to safety before sinking into the lava and melting. Olber reaches the unconscious train driver just as lava reaches the train and begins to flow underneath it. They manage to save the subway passengers. Meanwhile, Olber leads his team through the tunnel to the derailed train, searching for survivors. In the Red Line metro tunnel, the passengers in the derailed subway train are rendered unconscious by severe heat and toxic gases. Roark and Kelly become separated, and Kelly is injured when a lava bomb badly burns her leg. The lava incinerates everything in its path and kills two firefighters. Moments later, a newly-formed underground volcano erupts from the tar pits and lava begins to flow down Wilshire Boulevard. Roark helps injured firefighters out of the area. In the La Brea Tar Pits, volcanic smoke and ash billow out, followed by lava bombs that ignite several buildings.
A subway train derails underground, and power is knocked out across the city.
Barnes's assistant is killed when she falls into a crack that is later engulfed by a rush of hot gases. While they take samples, another earthquake strikes. The next morning, Barnes and her assistant venture in the storm sewer to investigate. Geologist Amy Barnes believes that a volcano may be forming beneath the city however, she has insufficient evidence to make Roark take action. Los Angeles MTA Chairman Stan Olber opposes this move, believing that there is no threat to the trains.
His associate notes that the quake caused no major damage, but seven utility workers are later burned to death in a storm drain at MacArthur Park.Īs a precaution, Roark tries to halt the subway lines near the location of the earthquake. Michael Roark, the director of the city's Office of Emergency Management, insists on coming to work to help out with the crisis even though he has been on vacation with his daughter Kelly. In downtown Los Angeles, an earthquake strikes.
A Region 1 code widescreen edition of the film was released on DVD in the United States on March 9, 1999. The film grossed $49,323,468 in domestic ticket receipts and an additional $73.5 million internationally for a total of $122,823,468 on a $90 million budget. It premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on April 25, 1997. Volcano was commercially distributed by 20th Century Fox. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, and was inspired by the 1943 formation of the Parícutin volcano in Paricutin, Mexico.
It tells the fictional story of an effort to divert the path of a dangerous lava flow through the streets of Los Angeles following the formation of a volcano at the La Brea Tar Pits. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle and Keith David. Volcano is a 1997 American disaster film directed by Mick Jackson and produced by Neal H.