HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii -- Lava began flowing into the sea Saturday night or yesterday morning for the first time since Jan. 31, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ranger Mardie Lane said. Six-mile-long lava flow
makes it to the oceanThe ocean entry was spotted about 9 a.m. yesterday by a tour helicopter.
The six-mile flow to the sea had been narrow, but on entering coastal flatland, spread out in several fingers and entered the sea along a 900-foot front, Lane said.
The site is 1,500 feet west of Wahaula Heiau, a 700-year-old temple site surrounded by lava in previous flows but still standing.
The park is not allowing visitors to hike to the flows, which are three miles from Chain of Craters Road over dangerous terrain.
Nearly 1,000 Marines from California would like to use public portions of Makua Beach in early September to get from their vessel to the firing range in Makua Valley. Marines eye Makua Beach
for 'transit'The proposed exercise will take place during the first week of September during a weekday, according to Capt. John Milliman, Kaneohe Marine Corps Base spokesman.
"We are not talking about a tactical landing or any training on the beach," Milliman said. "The proposal is for the Marines to transit through the beach to the training area on the other side of Farrington Highway and then transit back to their ships when their training is over. It should only take several hours each time."
The Marines' proposal will be discussed at 7 p.m. today before the Waianae Coast Neighborhood Board's parks and recreation committee at the Waianae Community Center.
In March, a more elaborate amphibious troop landing exercise was canceled and shifted to Bellows Air Force Station in Waimanalo after community and state leaders protested.
"In developing the route," Milliman said, "we are sensitive to the historical, cultural and archaeological sites in the area.
"The meeting also is get input from the public."
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Police/Fire
By Star-Bulletin staffA 2-year-old Waialua boy was killed and his 5-year-old sister critically injured Saturday night when a van rear-ended the Jeep Cherokee they were riding in near the Helemano Military Reservation. Van crashes into vehicle,
killing a Waialua boy, 2The crash occurred at 10:13 p.m. on at the intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Paalaa Uka Pupukea Road.
Police vehicular homicide investigators said the north-bound Cherokee was stopped at a traffic light when it was struck by a Chevrolet Lumina van driven by a 33-year-old Army man.
Speed and alcohol are possible factors, police said.
The girl, seated in the rear seat with her two brothers, suffered critical head injuries when she was ejected from the Cherokee.
She is hospitalized at Queen's Hospital.
Her older brother, 12, is in guarded condition at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.
The children's parents, both 30, were treated at Queen's and released.
The van's driver is in guarded condition at Tripler Hospital with a fractured leg.
After striking the Cherokee, the van also clipped a south-bound car stopped at the intersection, police said.
Three mainland visitors in the car were not injured.
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- A 19-year-old Maili man was stabbed in the back during a fight
- A 22-year-old Hilo man arrested for attacking two men in a Kailua-Kona bar
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