HONOLULU — The Hawaii community hardest hit by the Kilauea Volcano was ordered to be sealed off under a strict new mandatory evacuation on Thursday, May 31, as the eruption marked its fourth week with no end in sight.
The Big Island’s mayor, Harry Kim, declared a roughly 17-block swath of the lava-stricken Leilani Estates subdivision off-limits indefinitely and gave any residents remaining there 24 hours to leave or face possible arrest.
