Helicopters ready for depletion as Kilauea’s 3rd lava upsurge enters ocean

Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters were on standby Friday to presumably ride people from Hawaii’s Big Island, nearby Kilauea’s lava flow, as an intensified volcanic tear entered a fourth week.

A third lava upsurge from Kilauea began streaming into a sea in reduce Puna district on Thursday, between Pohoiki Bay and MacKenzie State park, producing a disorderly cloud of noxious gases containing little potion particles.

After channel Highway 137, a lava mist famous as ‘laze’ rises where lava is attack a sea nearby a tiny village of Pahoa in a District of Puna, Hawaii, on Thursday. (Marco Garcia/Reuters)

About dual dozen fissures have non-stop down Kilauea’s easterly side given May 3 and about 2,000 people have already left a southeast tip of a Big Island. Six of a fissures re-erupted on Thursday, sending rivers of fiery stone through farmland and farming homes.

Another 2,000 people in coastal communities might be forced to leave their homes if State Highway 130, their final exit, becomes blocked.

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