Hawaii Volcano Prompts More Evacuations

Governing: Kilauea's continued eruptions _ possibly a long windup to a major explosion at the summit _ forced more evacuations Sunday as yet another fissure opened and spattered lava along the volcano's eastern flank .

The Hawaii County Civil Defense sent out the evacuation alert for residents west of Highway 132 on the Hale Kamahina Loop Road after the fissure appeared. They were asked to head to shelters, like the roughly 2,000 residents from the Leilani Estates neighborhood who began evacuating last week.

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