Hawaiian Lava Invading Village Homes, Spurring Evacuation
An outflow at Kilauea that began in June now threatens to engulf houses and a highway.
Smoke rises from the lava flowing out of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on October 28. People are packing up and leaving their homes as the molten rock approaches the town of Paho
Lava oozing from the Kilauea volcano since June has now invaded the Hawaiian village of Pahoa. With the molten rock threatening homes on the town's outskirts, some residents are packing up and evacuating.
As of October 29, the lava had destroyed only a storage shed in the village. But the molten rock creeping forward five to ten yards (4.5 to 9 meters) every hour also stood less than a hundred yards (about 90 meters) from a nearby home. And a slower finger of lava that broke away from the main flow was no more than a hundred feet (30 meters) from another house.
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