"Municipal coordinators for disaster reduction — CONRED — and institutions that make up the CONRED system have carried out preventive evacuations in the municipality of San Pedro Yepocapa, Chimaltenango, and the villages Panimache I and II, El Porvenir, and Morelia," the agency said in a statement.
Local authorities have established two large shelters to accommodate nearly 900 families evacuated from the danger zones, the agency said.
According to CONRED, the new Fuego eruption is accompanied by the release of ash and gases to a height of more than 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) and lava flowing from the eastern and western slopes of the volcano.