With no imminent danger posed by the ongoing flow of lava from Mauna Loa, authorities are busy dealing with a different sort of spectacle: Throngs of people trying to get a closer look at Earth’s biggest volcano.
The outline of the erupting Mauna Loa was obscured by a shroud of fog on Hawaii’s Big Island. But a streak of the red-hot innards of Planet Earth oozing down the mountainside in the distance glowed clear.
“It was really spontaneous,” she said of the decision to come. “Like, last night, 9 o’clock, we got tickets.” Efforts to view the eruption from above were also challenging. National Park Service officials warned of bans on most drone flights within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park after receiving an onslaught of requests from media seeking a bird’s-eye view. Helicopter tours costing upward of $500 per seat were booked for days in advance.While Paradise Helicopters normally offers tours with views of waterfalls and black sand beaches, all of its flights were being diverted to Mauna Loa.
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