 Meanwhile, residents who refused to leave one of the villages in the Red Zone have been recounting their experience. More in this report. The action of this dog paints a bleak picture of the situation in Oria, which is one of the communities in the Red Zone on the windward side of the island, devastated by the eruption of La Sofreya volcano. The owner of the dog returned to the community for the first time on Sunday since the eruption started, and when it was time to leave, the dog jumped into the water and swam towards the boat. We are taking it, we are taking it. The dog just can't take the pressure. Just can't take the pressure. There is total destructive transformation of Oria with a number of buildings destroyed including churches and the entire village covered with several inches of volcanic ash. New beaches were also formed at a new waterfall developed from the destruction of the main bridge connecting Fancy to Oria. The riverbed of the Oria Big River has been totally transformed with these huge boulders coming from the mountain slope. Dale Medica, who stayed behind, heard when it all happened. It was like over a thousand yards away, hardly rumbling, but I didn't make it here because it was coming. This is a new river fall in Oria. This was born on the 13th of April 2001. Some areas in the community reaped of the scent of dead animals. This elderly resident, Grafton Caesar, is one of the men who did not evacuate. He said although they were able to save some animals, they could not save all. When the river comes down, sheep and goats and pigs wash into, when they wash goat and sheep inside the water, don't even see water right there. Just like a waft on the real sheep and goat and dogs because they have no shelter place to shelter. So in the river, they have cave with the animal to go and shelter, but they don't know because they don't have the opportunity like we human beings. So we have to take them and carry them away. The resident known as Jombie said at this time, Oria is inhabitable as there is a constant sandstorm. He said it will take a long time before Oria returns to anything close to normal. When you look at it, it's like a desert, we say you have to be good for living in a desert. The situation here is a farming thing going on and the people cannot come back in this village because up at the water situation, real bad, real difficult to put back pipe, have to run real years before, when we say 20 years but it will take a time. Due to the weight of volcanic ash which has formed like cement, some roofs are caving in. The remaining Oria residents and those who have been watching videos and pictures of their houses from a distance are praying for rain to keep the dust down and wash away the dirt off their houses and crops which for many are the livelihood.