The Nation - News from Dec. 19, 1986
About 150 people were evacuating vacation homes threatened by a 250-foot-wide lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, which has already destroyed 13 houses. The lava rolled across a two-lane highway at the top of the Kalapana Gardens vacation subdivision late in the morning, and Civil Defense workers issued an evacuation order for about 50 homes. Roadblocks were set up to keep spectators away, and crews cut firebreaks to keep the 2,000-degree lava from starting brush fires.
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