Hawaii evacuees leave homes as new lava threatens on Big Island
Pahoa, Hawaii — National Guard troops, police and firefighters ushered the last group of evacuees from homes on the eastern tip of Hawaii’s Big Island early on Saturday, hours before lava from the Kilauea volcano cut off road access to the area, officials said. A stream of lava as wide as three football fields flowed over a highway near a junction at Kapoho, a seaside community of rebuilt after a destructive eruption of Kilauea in 1960. The lava flow left Kapoho and the adjacent development of Vacationland cut off from the rest of the island by road, according to the Hawaii County Civil Defense agency. Also, lava destroyed a freshwater lake, boiling away all of the water in it, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported. "Lava entered Green Lake within Kapoho Crater, producing a large steam plume.… A Hawaiian County Fire Department overflight reported that the lava filled the lake and apparently evaporated all the water," the report said. Authorities since Wednesday had been urging r...
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