PICS: ‘Fire and Fury: 35 Years of Eruptions at Kilauea’
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2018
The Leilani Estates home of Rebecca McCarthy and Timothy Jeffryes in May 2018.2/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
A lone chair was left in the garden of a Leilani Estates lot as Sulfur dioxide wafted through the area on June 16, 2018.3/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
Pahoa resident Stefani Hinkle watches lava erupt inside Leilani Estates on May 18, 2018 in Pahoa.4/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
Lava erupts near fissure 17 in Leilani Estates on May 19, 2018 in Pahoa.5/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
An albizia tree is seen in the foreground as lava erupts inside Leilani Estates on May 18, 2018 in Pahoa on Hawaii Island.6/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
Leilani Estates residents Elizabeth Kerekgyarto, right, and Lucina Aqulina embrace before parting ways outside Kerekgyarto's home on May 6, 2018 at Leilani Estates in Pahoa.7/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
Cynthia McClendon checks in with her evacuated horses at a Honomu ranch. McClendon's trail riding business is located in Kapoho, located in lower Puna, which is now under watch for new volcanic eruptions.8/132
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BRUCE ASATO / 2018
A Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park ranger walks up to the now closed Jagger Museum, leaving more footprints in the layer of ash covering the walkway on June 28, 2018.9/132
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COURTESY USGS
An ash column rises from the overlook crater at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano in 2018.10/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
Pfc. Kaleo Blas from the 230th Engineer Company Hawaii Army National Guard carried building material at the relief housing being built along Akeakamai Loop in Pahoa on June 8, 2018. Soldiers from the 230th Engineer Company Hawaii Army National Guard along with volunteer construction workers built relief housing along Akeakamai Loop in Pahoa on Friday, June 8, 2018. The project will provide 20 tiny housing units, a communal area, kitchen, restrooms and showers for those who have lost their homes due to the volcanic activity of Kilauea.11/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2018
From left: Tony French, Jonathan Marsh and James Lancaster are all wearing masks as they stopped in Pahoa (on Pahoa Village Road) for lunch in 2018.12/132
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BRUCE ASATO / 2018
Val Bandmann packs up what she can from her Leilani Estates property now covered with volcanic rock inches deep in 2018.13/132
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BRUCE ASATO / 2018
Val Bandmann stops in her front door entryway as she walks through her Leilani Estates in the documentation of her home on June 30, 2018.14/132
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BRUCE ASATO / 2018
Val Bandmann walks away from looking at what was her family's backyard with a lawn, an above ground pool, a storage shed and a water catchment system - now covered with volcanic rock inches deep and a view of the huge fissure 8 spewing volcanic emissions on June 30, 2018. Bandmann was one of several Leilani Estates homeowners allowed back to her property on this day to gather belongings or, as in Bandmann's case, document the situation for possible FEMA assistance.15/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
Leilani Estates resident JP Reynon III, right, a resident who did not want to be identified, and Mathias Moylan carry belongings out of a house as lava overruns the pavement on Hookupu Street on May 7, 2018 at Leilani Estates in Pahoa.16/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
Sr. Airman Orlando Corpuz of the Hawaii Air National Guard looks inside a large crack in the pavement on Kupono Street on May 18, 2018 inside Leilani Estates in Pahoa.17/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2018
Mick and Ann Kalber give each other a kiss as they have just locked up the gate to their driveway to heir home. They had earlier returned to their home in Leilani Estates to remove their last few personal items as they are in the mandatory evacuation zone.18/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2018
Members of the National Guard took the media out on a tour of the lava sites in Leilani Estates. Someone put a ho'okupu at the entrance to their residence on Kupono St.19/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
Ssgt. Jake Kiyohiro of the Hawaii National Guard takes gas readings from a fissure on Kaupili Street on May 7, 2018 at Leilani Estates in Pahoa.20/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2018
Mick and Ann Kalber had just returned to their home on Kupono St. in Leilani Estates, to remove their last few personal items as they are in the mandatory evacuation zone.21/132
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COURTESY SHANTEL PACARRO
Noah Friend returns to his home in Leilani Estates to find a 10-foot wide crack running 500 feet long through his backyard and beneath the house where he and his fiance, Shantel Pacarro, live.22/132
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2018
Active lava fissures near what is now the end of Leilani Street continued to spew forth lava at Leilani Estates near Pahoa. Silhouetted are adventurous residents and members of the media.23/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
The scene at the Puuhonua o Puna community support center in Pahoa in 2018.24/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
Leilani Estates resident Ronald Jones-Schutz hauls bags of donated dog food from Puuhonua o Puna community support center in Pahoa.25/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
Elston Kamaka grabbed a box of donated goods from Joel Rosario while loading up a trailer for Kalapana residents at the Puuhonua o Puna community support center.26/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2018
Donated supplies are dropped off and distributed to needy people who were displaced by the May 2018 lava outbreak in Leilani Estates and Kalpana.27/132
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JAMM AQUINO / 2018
Residents evacuate their home on Kaupili Street on May 7, 2018 at Leilani Estates in Pahoa, Hawaii island.28/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim steps outside before a community meeting in 2018 in Pahoa.29/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
A geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey measures a crack along Kapoho Rd. (Highway 132) amongst an offering of lei in lower Puna.30/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2018
Lava burns across a road in the Leilani Estates subdivision as an unidentified person takes pictures of the flow on May 5, 2018 near Pahoa, Hawaii.31/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
Donna Walker (right) weeps as she embraces Verna Schutz-Kahele at the Puuhonua o Puna community support center in Pahoa. The two women once worked together as teachers at Pahoa Elementary School and had not seen each other in over ten years.32/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
John Byrd Sr. and his son John Jr. lay a post on the foundation of their new home. The family relocated to Kalapana after lava burnt down the Pahoa home they were renting.33/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER
The lava lake at Halemaumau Crater on Hawaii island.34/132
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COURTESY USGS
The lava lake atop Kilauea volcano in 2016.35/132
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COURTESY HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY
The summit lava lake in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater.36/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
The first structures were set ablaze as a lava flow reached the outskirts of Pahoa in 2014.37/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
A house was moved out of Nanawale subdivision to avoid possible isolation in 2014.38/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
A house was moved out of Nanawale subdivision in 2014 to avoid possible isolation.39/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
The town of Pahoa continued to prepare for the arrival of a lava flow in October 2014, which has already closed two nearby roads.40/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2012
Hawaii County Officials went door to door on Laau Street in Pahoa issuing notifications as a lava flow approached.41/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2004
Lava from the banana flow of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park pours into the Pacific Ocean, Saturday, June 12, 2004. The banana flow was named for a forested area near the top of the volcano where there were some banana trees. Lava from the Kilauea eruption, which began Jan. 3, 1983, reached the ocean for the first time in nearly a year on May 30. The lava has created more than 500 acres of new land along the Puna coastline.42/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2004
Lava from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park explodes as it meets the cool waters of the Pacific Ocean at dawn on June 12, 2004.43/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2004
Lava from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park enters the Pacific Ocean before dawn, July 4, 2004, in Volcano, Hawaii.44/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER
Tourists watch a lava flow from Kilauea Volcano as it crosses an untouched part of Chain of Craters Road.45/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2005
Visitors to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park near Volcano, Hawai'i gather near sunset on March 21, 2005 as lava from Kilauea Volcano reaches the Pacific Ocean.46/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2008
A plume of sulfur dioxide gas and ash rises from Halemaumau in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in 2008. Later in the day Park officials evacuated 2,000 visitors and the Park remained closed for a second day as officials waited for a change in wind direction to blow away sulfur dioxide belching from Kilauea volcano.47/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2004
Lava flows around a tree as it moves down the slopes of Kilauea Volcano in Volcanoes National Park in 2004.48/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2007
Ka Pa Hula O Ka Lei Lehua, led by Kumu Hula Snowbird Bento, from Nanakuli, Oahu, visit Kilauea. Bento said it's "to pay their respect to the land and Pele."49/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2002
A group of people (left) dwarfed by a steam cloud created by lava entering the sea.50/132
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COURTESY NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE
Kilauea's Pu‘u ‘O‘o vent.51/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
The eruption at Kilauea's Pu'u O'o in July 1983.52/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Firemen spray water on advancing lava creeping slowly toward one of the houses in Kalapana in 1983. It only slightly delayed the house from catching on fire and burning down.53/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
The eruption at Kilauea's Pu'u O'o in July 1983.54/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1988
Spectators watch molten lava turn into clouds of steam in 1988.55/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
The start of the eruption on East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano in early January of 1983.56/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2003
Lava crosses the Chain of Craters Road in 2003.57/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
The eruption at Kilauea's Pu'u O'o in July 1983.58/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
Lava from Kilauea Volcano overtakes and destroys a home in Kalapana in 1990. ASSOCIATED PRESS / 199059/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
Lava from Kilauea spared this toilet in Mike Barlett's backyard when it rolled through Kalapana Gardens in 1990.60/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1997
A lava flow at the end of Chain of Craters Road at Hawaii Volcano National Park in 1997.61/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1983
A volcanologist walks away from a vent spouting lava after taking scientific measurements.62/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
Employees of Water Yamaguchi's store move to evacuate in 1990.63/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
The black sand beach that seems to be coming back in Kalapana in 2014. Recent lava flows (around 1989 or very early 1990s) covered the once famed black sand beach.64/132
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JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM
Lava erupts near Fissure 17 in Leilani Estates May 19, 2018.65/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1983
The Star of the Sea "Painted" Church sits ready to be transported away from lava in Kalapana on May 3, 1990. Workmen secured a religious statue while they awaited a tractor and lifts. Kilauea's lava is flowing just down the road from the church.66/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1990
The Star of the Sea Church being transported to a safer location in 1990.67/132
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Kalapana Gardens. Lava. Lava from Kilauea volcano spared this toilet in Mike Barlett's backyard when it rolled through Kalapana Gardens this week. The flow has since stopped. See story, photo, Page A-3. Star-Bulletin photo by Dean Sensui on April 5, 1990. Ran on Friday, April 6, 1990.
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MARCO GARCIA / ASSOCIATED PRESS
A home sits atop of a lava field in an active rift zone in Kalapana on March 19, 2008. Recent Kilauea activity sent lava oozing down a slope to the ocean about a mile from this home. Despite increased lava activity, residents in the Kalapana region remain.69/132
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BRUCE ASATO / 1991
The Star of the Sea Church.70/132
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Kalapana Gardens. Lava. Lava from Kilauea volcano spared this toilet in Mike Barlett's backyard when it rolled through Kalapana Gardens this week. The flow has since stopped. See story, photo, Page A-3. Star-Bulletin photo by Dean Sensui on April 5, 1990. Ran on Friday, April 6, 1990.
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Lava fountains from Kilauea in 1983.72/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1987
An abandoned car is surrounded by lava in Kalapana in 1987. A passerby put up a "for sale" sign as a joke.73/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2018
The National Guard took the media on a tour of lava sites in Leilani Estates in 2018. A lei was left on the lava that flowed over Kauai Street.74/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2018
The Kilauea Volcano east rift zone eruption continues mainly from a fissure and forms a river of lava flowing down to Kapoho on June 10, 2018, in Pahoa, Hawaii.75/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1993
Despair and sorrow show on the face of Jon Erickson, chief ranger at Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii island, as lava ignites the Wahaula Heiau Visitor Center on New Year's Day 1993.76/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
A mile long fountain of lava shoots up to 200 feet from a crack in the East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano. This photo was taken within a week of the start of the eruption in early January 1983.77/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER
Lava enters Kapoho Bay.78/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1989
Lava-fanned flames fully engulf the 25-year-old Wahaula Visitor Center in 1989.79/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
Lava fountains up to 200 feet shoot up from a crack about a mile long on the East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano on Jan. 13, 1983, about ten days after the eruption started.80/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Construction crews work on creating an evacuation route connecting the Chain Of Craters Road in Volcanoes National Park in 2018.81/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
Lava flows from Kilauea have chased some residents from Kalapana Gardens. Homes are either "for sale" or being moved by residents.82/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
Palani Douglass cooks fish and pigs feet for his family at the Canoe Club in Kalapana where many Royal Gardens subdivision residents stayed until the threat of the east rift zone eruption was over.83/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Construction crews work in the pouring rain to create an evacuation route connecting the Chain Of Craters Road in Volcanoes National Park) as previously lava flowed over the road cutting off access to the Volcanoes National Park with residents along Hwy. 130 and Hwy. 137.84/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1990
Lava at the entrance to Kalapana Gardens subdivision in Kalapana in May 1990.85/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Lava from fissure 8 flowing over Pohoiki Road between the Leilani Estates and the Puna Geothermal Plant in 2018.86/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1990
Hawaii Police Department Sgt. Jay Enanoria checks a woman's identification at a Kalapana Gardens roadblock in 1990.87/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
Royal Gardens subdivision residents Pattie Mace and Jack Thompson, president of the Royal Gardens Community Association, pack up their possessions and prepare to leave the area in 1983.88/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mary Dressler steps onto a cooled lava flow which has filled up most of the backyard of her mother-in-law's home in the Kalapana Gardens subdivision in Kalapana, Hawaii, in 1990.89/132
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COURTESY USGS
A braided lava channel extends from the fissure 8 vent (near top, center) and flows toward the ocean. Some of the abandoned connector channels were more obvious in this morning's light than on previous days.90/132
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DENNIS ODA / 2018
Sgt. Andrew Jackson is masked up as sulfur dioxide levels were at 2 parts per million from the Kilauea Volcano eruption from fissure 8 on Luana St. in Leilani Estates in May 2018.91/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1989
A woman watches as firefighters at the Wahaula Visitor Center attempt to stop advancing lava.92/132
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COURTESY J.D. GRIGGS
A house is torched by lava on April 22, 1990 in Kalapana. In May 1990, a Federal Disaster Declaration was issued for Kalapana and all other areas previously affected by the eruption.93/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lava at the entrance to Kalapana Gardens subdivision in 1990.94/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
A house at 14-3551 Kahoolawe Circle was moved out of Nanawale subdivision in 2014 to avoid possible isolation if lava cut access to the area via Hwy 130.95/132
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COURTESY HVO
Inflation is a common characteristic of active pāhoehoe flows. Here, a flow has inflated up to the level of the Pāhoa transfer station fence. A glowing crack provides evidence of the flow's molten interior.96/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
Hawaii County Officials went door to door on Laau Street in Pahoa in 2014, issuing notifications as lava approached the area.97/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
Darcy Ross comforts a dog left homeless after lava destroyed his owner's home in Kalapana Gardens in 1990.98/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1990
Lava from Kilauea Volcano blocks Kalapana Ave. after advancing across the road during the night in the Kalapana Gardens subdivision on April 23, 1990.99/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
Lava threatens and moments later destroys a telephone connection shed in Kalapana Gardens in 1990. Betty Meza, seated, and Trudy Simone watch the flow.100/132
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COURTESYU SHANE TURPIN
A "firehose" lava stream from Kilauea Volcano shoots out from a sea cliff on Hawaii's Big Island in 2017 as seen from a tour boat off the coast.101/132
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COURTESY USGS
Streaks of lava arc dozens of feet into the sky from explosions where lava from Kilauea Volcano entered the ocean at Waikupanaha on the Big Island in 2008.102/132
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COURTESY USGS
A natural lava sculpture formed by Kilauea volcano in 2003 looks like a red-eyed rhinoceros head, but geologists haven't named it yet because such shapes often crumble away.103/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
Employees of Water Yamaguchi's store move move to clear shelves of products once Civil Defense gave the order to evacuate in May 1990.104/132
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BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM
Hawaii island firefighters use water hoses to try and beat back the flow of lava from Kilauea in 1983.105/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2002
Roping pahoehoe lava near West High Castle on Hawaii island in 2002.106/132
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COURTESY USGS
Walter's Kalapana Store and Drive Inn was burned and covered by lava as flows moved relentlessly through the Kalapana area.107/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
Hawaii County civil defense worker Ipo Kaawaloa goes to check on the lava's progress after it finally cut off all access to Kalapana via highway 137 on Friday, May 4, 1990.108/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lava from Kilauea Volcano moves in on several houses in Kalapana Gardens in 1990. Over 100 homes were been destroyed by the eruption.109/132
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COURTESY USGS
Walter's Kalapana Store and Drive Inn was burned and covered by lava.110/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Ka Pa Hula O Ka Lei Lehua from Nanakuli, Oahu, visited Kilauea in 2007.111/132
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BRUCE ASATO / 1990
Lava enshrines the ruins of an old Catholic church in Puna in 1990.112/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1997
Lava at the end of Chain of Craters Road in 1997.113/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2002
Srinivas Pudu, left, and Srinath Devalapalli of Texas are silhouetted against a steam cloud caused when molten lava enters the sea on Hawaii island. The red glow is from molten lava flowing from Kilauea.114/132
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COURTESY GARY SLEIK
Lava burns a house at Kalapana on the Big Island in 2011.115/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1990
The Mauna Kea Congregational Church remained standing as lava passed by the back of the building in Kalapana in 1990.116/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2008
Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano is seen on July 8, 2008.117/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Underground flowing lava is revealed near Kilauea's summit on Hawaii island in 1987 when the surface collapsed, creating a skylight.118/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2003
Lava shortens the Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park as it makes its latest crossing on the way to the Pacific Ocean in 2003.119/132
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COURTESY PARADISE HELICOPTERS
The June 27th flow from Kilauea consumes its first home in Pahoa. Located on Apa‘a Street, the red roofed home ignites from the heat of the lava as the flow slowly creeps up to it.120/132
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Flames explode from the home of John and Maureen Gapp after the structure was set ablaze by lava from the Kilauea Volcano in 1990.121/132
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DENNIS ODA / 1983
At Kalapana, residents sadly watch a home goes up in flames caused by the advancing lava.122/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2002
This skylight at the upper section of the Mother's Day Flow at Kilauea in 2002 was dubbed Cookie Monster for obvious reasons. The Jaws of Hell also comes to mind. USGS Geologist Tim Orr inspects another skylight behind Cookie Monster.123/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1983
Kilauea's Pu'u O'o vent erupts in July 1983.124/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2014
Lava flows through Pahoa Cemetery in 2014.125/132
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
This woman came to a mound of slowly moving lava crossing the road to worship Pele in 1983. Within a half an hour, the road was gone.126/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2019
Steam rises from a lava field surrounding Fissure 8 in Leilani Estates on April 17, 2019.127/132
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COURTESY USGS
A "laze," or lava haze, plume rises from the northern side of a fissure in the former Kapoho Bay in the town of Kapoho on the island of Hawaii on June 6, 2018.128/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
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COURTESY HAWAII COUNTY
The June 27, 2014 lava flow continued its march on the Pahoa Waste transfer station. Hawaii County firefighters., Hawaii Electric Co. and HELCO, continued efforts to protect power lines in the area.130/132
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 1984
Dead ohia trees point toward a house in Royal Gardens on Hawaii island that was spared in 1984 when one of the lava flows stopped just across the street.131/132
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2018
A mailbox and newspaper delivery bin are the only things left standing amongst fallen trees and lava near Nohea St. in Leilani Estates on June 20, 2018.132/132
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GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM
Leilani Estates continued to suffer the ravages of Pele on near Pahoa in 2018. Area residents, the media and national guard flocked to what is now the end of Leilani Avenue to take in the fiery show at fissures 2, 7 and 8.
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