Ash and molten lava were shot forth into the air as Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began erupting Thursday night, leading to 1,000 people being evacuated from the area.
Fox News has the details:
Aerial drone footage showed a line of lava snaking its way through forest land and bubbling up on paved streets. Elsewhere, lava spurted into the sky from cracks in the road.
Drone video from above the lava outbreak in Leilani Estates on Hawaii Island shows roads, homes near the path of destruction. MORE: https://t.co/ji6WuCmylO pic.twitter.com/q41ZyD8hix
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“It sounded like if you were to put a bunch of rocks into a dryer and turn it on as high as you could,” Jeremiah Osuna, who captured the drone footage, told Honolulu’s KHON-TV. “You could just smell sulfur and burning trees and underbrush and stuff.”
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Gov. David Ige activated the National Guard to help with evacuations and provide security for about 770 structures left empty by residents fleeing the area.
One homeowner in the Leilani Estates subdivision, which is near the town of Pahoa on the eastern side of the Big Island, said he knew when he bought a house near a volcano that this day might eventually come.
He added: “My family and my pets are safe. That’s what I really care about. I mean, the rest is just stuff. We can make more money and get more stuff. My family is safe. That’s the main thing.”
Please continue to pray for the good people of Hawaii as there’s no way to tell just how long this eruption might continue to go on, and many of them may end up losing their homes or other possessions.