Residents return after eruption
NZPA Volcano Weary residents were allowed to return to their homes and officials breathed easy yesterday as Kilauea volcano’s most destructive rampage of the year appeared to draw to a close, said officials. By late yesterday, the tally stood at eight structures destroyed during the three-day molten assault on the battered sudbivision, said the Hawaii County civil defence administrator, Mr Harry Kim. Sixteen structures in the subdivision had been destroyed since January 3. “I never thought it would get me,” said Richard Hoffman, whose house went under the lava, “but I’ll just wait a couple of years and start again.” His thoughts were echoed by a man who identified himself as Olympus Israel, who also lost his residence to the lava flow. He planned to wait until the lava cooled, and then “see what we’ve got.'
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Press, 5 July 1983, Page 10
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