HAWAII- Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted on Thursday, 3 May, sending lava shooting into the air in a residential neighbourhood and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for nearby homes.
The Hawaiian County Civil Defense Agency did close the area to visitors and ordered that private tour companies to stop bringing people into the region.
The County said the steam and lava spurted out into the sky from a crack in a road. Aerial drone footage showed a line of lava snaking through a forest.
Resident in the area Jeremiah Osuna told Honolulu television station KHON said, “It sounded like if you were to put a bunch of rocks into a dryer and turn it on as high as you could. You could just smell sulfur and burning trees and underbrush and stuff.”
Absolutely stunning drone video of the eruption of Hawaii's #kilauea volcano. Mandatory evacuations for the Leilani Estates subdivision have been ordered.
(📽️: Jeremiah Osuna) pic.twitter.com/Vqxq14ojgX
— Nick Dobis (@NickKPIX) May 4, 2018
At least 1,800 people ordered to evacuate because of Kilauea eruption, Hawaii County Civil Defense spokesperson tells @ABC. https://t.co/AlL1JKdvgS pic.twitter.com/6N37thq7l2
— ABC News (@ABC) May 4, 2018
Lava can be seen spewing from a vent in Hawaii's Leilani Estates community on the Big Island after eruption of Kilauea volcano. https://t.co/DdDqlKmyV2
The county has ordered evacuations for all of Leilani Estates, which according to the last Census has a population of 1,500. pic.twitter.com/v8O2poQGPe
— ABC News (@ABC) May 4, 2018
The footage of the #Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is extraordinary. It could erupt at any moment now 🌋 https://t.co/FYahtE2e7S pic.twitter.com/8WBCsw51Zn
— news.com.au (@newscomauHQ) May 3, 2018
Photo Credit- Sputnik International
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