The Nation - News from Dec. 18, 1986

Fiery lava from Kilauea volcano destroyed a house in its path and was headed toward others on the island of Hawaii, Civil Defense officials reported. They said the house, consumed in the western lobe of a double stream of the molten rock, was the 12th destroyed in the eruption that began July 20. Police said that the 65-foot-wide flow was within 650 feet of another home, but two other houses farther up the slope were spared when the lava forked and moved around them.