Back in January, SFGATE was on the ground in the national park during a previous eruption episode that also rained tephra over the park and surrounding region. During that event, falling tephra hit visitors, drawing blood, and it was the first time the Park Service closed the volcano summit since this eruption cycle began on Dec. 24, 2024.

The nine-hour eruptive event on Tuesday, while contained within the park, produced sustained high lava fountaining, which reached up to 1,300 feet at one point, and began at 9:17 a.m. It also resulted in widespread falling volcanic hazards such as volcanic glass known as Pele’s hair and fine volcanic ash, being reported in Hilo and Puna.

A Hawaiian volcano has shot a lava fountain 1,000 feet into the air, closing highways and parts of a National Park. Located on the Big Island, Kilauea has been erupting since December 2024, with 43 incidents recorded since then.

A 33-year-old Hawaiʻi man has died after being found in a closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park last week. Park officials say the volcano was not erupting at the time of the incident.

Park rangers are evacuating visitors from the Kīlauea Summit in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park as it is temporarily closed due to hazardous amounts of volcanic rock, ash and glass particles falling over the summit. Highway 11 is closed between mile markers 24 and 40 due to dangerous road conditions.

One of the most popular attractions on the Big Island, the park offers some of the best volcano viewing in the world.

Officials are investigating after a man died following an airlift from a restricted zone at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

A 33-year-old man is dead following an overnight rescue operation at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park last week, according to the National Park Service. NPS referred to the death in a news release as an “incident” that occurred Feb. 26 in a closed area on the east side of the Kilauea caldera within the park.

A 33-year-old died after being rescued in a closed area within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, according to officials. Teams responded to the incident on February 26 and searched through the night for the man.

The man was pronounced deceased after being discovered by a search and rescue team and later airlifted to the hospital