Get out! Two new vents open up on erupting Kilauea volcano spewing lava and deadly gas as police go door-to-door to plead with residents who have ALREADY returned home to evacuate
Governor David Ige has called for federal assistance as fissures continue to open up in wake of eruptions
Two new vents have now opened up on the erupting Hawaii volcano sparking immediate evacuations of the remaining residents in Lanipuna Gardens
A striking image shows the north portion of the crater in Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, which erupted on Thursday
Kilauea has destroyed 35 homes & buildings and forced 1,700 people to evacuate in Leilani Estates area
Timelapse video footage shows one stream on lava as it crawled across a street, towards a parked car
Leilani Estates is located 12 miles from volcano, prompting an alert for residents to leave homes immediately
Emergency crews have warned residents to ‘go now’ before more homes are destroyed by lava flows
Amber Makuakane Kane, 37, said her home in Leilani Estates on the island of Hawaii was destroyed by the lava
She is now searching for a home for her and Alana, six, and Aaron, four to live in after their catastrophic loss
By HANNAH PARRY
DAILYMAIL.COM
9 May 2018
Two new vents have opened up on the erupting Hawaii volcano, sparking immediate evacuations of the remaining residents in Lanipuna Gardens – with cops going door-to-door to get residents away from the danger zone.
Authorities ordered nearly 2,000 residents to leave two communities in the mostly rural district of Puna on Hawaii’s Big Island last Thursday.
But authorities say many people had ignored warnings, forbidding them from returning because of hazardous volcanic gases, and had gone back to their homes.
Now new evacuation orders have been issued after a new vent, spewing lava and deadly gases, opened near the intersection of Leilani Avenue and Kahukai Road, while a second opened Kaupili St. and Leilani Avenue.
‘There were a number of people at their residences,’ Talmadge Magno, the administrator for Hawaii County Civil Defense, said at a news briefing. There was no sign of holdouts in Lanipuna afterward, he said.
Edwin Montoya, 76, had planned to stay to care for animals and keep looters away from his family’s property in neighboring Leilani Estates. But he was forced to evacuate after the new fissures emerged, including one just a mile away.
‘I’m in my truck right now on my way up the road,’ he said. ‘The police came down here and made me.’
Both communities are in a forested, remote part of the Big Island on the eastern flank of Kilauea volcano, which has been erupting continuously since 1983.
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