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By CALEB JONES, JENNIFER
PELTZ and SOPHIA YAN
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — ALOHA
The number of homes
destroyed by Hawaii's
Kilauea volcano jumped
to 26 Sunday as scientists
reported lava spewing
more than 200 feet (61
meters) into the air.
Some of the more
than 1,700 people who
evacuated prepared for
the possibility they may not
return for quite some time.
Hawaii officials said the
decimated homes were
in the Leilani Estates
subdivision, where molten
rock, toxic gas and steam
have been bursting
through openings in the
ground created by the
volcano. Officials updated
the number of lost homes
after an aerial survey of the
subdivision.
"That number could
change," Hawaii County Hawaii volcano destroys 26 homes, spews lava 200 feet in air
spokeswoman Janet
Snyder said. "This is A line of traffic is seen going towards Pahoa town, Sunday, May 6, 2018, near Pahoa, Hawaii.
heartbreaking." Associated Press
Amber Makuakane, 37, a
teacher and single mother rising from all parts of the confirmed that lava had Makuakane grew up in the come to terms with it."
of two, said her three- yard, but everything looked covered her property. area and lived in her house Lava has spread around
bedroom house in Leilani fine," Makuakane said. "They don't really for nine years. Her parents 387,500 square feet (36,000
Estates was destroyed by On Saturday, she received understand," she said also live in Leilani Estates. square meters) surrounding
lava. The dwelling was alerts from her security about her children. "My son "The volcano and the the most active fissure,
across from a fissure that system that motion sensors keeps asking me, 'Mommy lava -- it's always been a though the rate of
opened Friday, when throughout the house had when are we going to go part of my life," she said. movement is slow.
"there was some steam been triggered. She later home?'" "It's devastating ... but I've Continued on Page 3

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