The Nation : Lava Flow Perils 4 Homes

A 150-foot-wide lava flow carrying hot, jagged boulders from Kilauea Volcano moved slowly down a mountain, burning a path to within one-quarter of a mile of four homes in Kalapana, Hawaii. Civil Defense authorities rushed to evacuate the homes in the Keoni Subdivision, a little more than a mile above the Kalapana Highway, which already had been severed by lava. The lava, which broke out over the weekend from the 1,100-foot elevation on the volcano’s flank, was about three-quarters of a mile east of a flow that destroyed 11 homes last month.