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Dozens of residents from the village of Pahoa on Hawaii's Big Island are preparing to watch their homes be engulfed by a slow-moving finger of lava that has traced a scorched path for months from its origin at Kilauea volcano.

Hawaii County Civil Defense Director Darryl Oliveira has said residents will be allowed to watch Mother Nature consume their homes to "provide for a means of closure.

"You can only imagine the frustration as well as ... despair they're going through," he said, according to The Associated Press.

By Monday morning local time, the lava — which is flowing at a rate of about 10 yards per hour — was less than 100 yards from the nearest home in the village.

 says: "As of 4:30 PM [Hawaii time], the flow was 510 meters (560 yards) upslope from Pāhoa Village Road; the flow width was about 50 meters (55 yards) at the leading edge."


The flow is from an eruption that began on June 27.

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Dozens of residents ready to watch their homes engulfed by a slow-moving finger of lava that has traced a scorched path for months from its origin at Kilauea volcano.

In Hawaii: Lava creeps toward houses in Pahoa village

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