https://hyperallergic.com/917685/can-archaeologists-locate-pompeii-survivors/
An interesting angle
For those unable to watch the series, it is worth it when it arrives at your territory. This episode points out surviving Pompeii depended a lot on timing (if you went early enough to the countryside or were away on business and decided against returning until the eruption had settled down) and also the direction you went (North past Vesuvius, IIRC, was the correct choice).
And very interesting I found