This is the dramatic moment scorching lava from Iceland's volcanic eruption surged towards construction workers and their vehicles as they desperately tried to build a defensive wall to protect the fishing town of Grindavik from the molten rock.Brave workmen had raced to the edge of the lava flow to save their work machines that were being used to build defensive barriers around Grindavik after the volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula erupted for the second time in less than a month. Nail-biting footage shows the construction workers working against the clock to evacuate from the area and save the machines with the scorching lava seen just yards away as they move as quickly as the slow excavators and bulldozers will allow.
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