Report finds failures in county’s lava response

KIM

RUDERMAN

SAN BUENAVENTURA

KANEALI'I-KLEINFELDER

Hawaii County has released a report largely critical of its own response to the monthslong eruption of Kilauea volcano in 2018 — in which Halema‘uma‘u crater threw ash 30,000 feet into the air, lava destroyed a 716 homes and structures in lower Puna, and hundreds of residents were displaced.