Is Volcano Near Navy Base Ready to Blow?: NAPLES, Italy — Mount Vesuvius could blow any day, one German newspaper warned this week. The German daily Bild reported that evacuation is gearing up now. But Italians call the German blow-up a dud. “It’s not true," said Franco Guarrancino, who lives at the volcano’s base. He was relaxing at home on his day off, clearly oblivious to oblivion. “Everything is quiet.” The Bild piece predicted lava, ash, gas, debris and death. Is Apocalypse Napoli really now? Government experts denied everything. And the Naples daily newspaper, Il Mattino, immediately went to war with the Bild story, calling it “a journalistic buffalo consumed on the altar of business.” In other words, a goofy stunt. The spokesman for the U.S. Navy base just 10 miles from the volcano said the impending doom was news to him.