HILO — Lava from Kilauea volcano has entered the ocean in Kapoho Bay in lower Puna.
The lava from fissure No. 8 continues to feed a large, channelized flow that pushed into the bay sometime last night, Hawaii County Civil Defense announced this morning.
Hundreds of homes in Vacationland and Kapoho Beach Lots were potentially in the path of the flow as it neared the bay, but Civil Defense did not provide an update regarding the number of structures that have been destroyed.
Up to a dozen residents had remained in the area as of late last week.
On Sunday, two men and a woman were picked up by a private helicopter rented by the U.S. Geological Survey. Civil Defense confirmed later that another woman was rescued who had previously refused to evacuate.