Volcano threatens Hawaiian village

Residents and onlookers look out towards the area where the lava flow from the Kilauea volcano has reached the town in Pahoa, Hawaii.  (Marco Garcia / Reuters)

Women walk past a restaurant, which neighbours said closed due to the advancing lava flow from the Kilauea volcano, in the village of Pahoa, Hawaii.  (Marco Garcia / Reuters)

Artist Steve Raymond shows off a shirt he just printed as a river of molten lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano approaches the village of Pahoa, Hawaii.  (Marco Garcia / Reuters)

Although additional layers of lava in this ongoing flow may eventually reach higher than 18 feet, thus far these protected telephone poles are intact and utility services have not been interrupted.  (Peter Serafin / For The Los Angeles Times)

Power poles in the lava’s path are being protected by thick insulating foil, with an 18-foot-high ring of cattle fencing filled with crushed rock and cinders around each pole.   (Peter Serafin / For The Times)

A portion of the front of the Hawaii lava flow burns vegetation as it approaches a property boundary on October 28, 2014 in Pahoa, Hawaii.   (Handout / Getty Images)

This Oct. 26 image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a palm tree surrounded by lava from the Kilauea Volcano as it advances across the grassy pasture below the Pahoa cemetery in Hawaii.  (Ho, AFP/Getty Images)

This Oct. 24 annotated image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the lava flow a volcano, top, a cinder/spatter cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.   (Ho, AFP/Getty Images)