Friday, June 15, 2018
FEMA gets green light
President Trump approved
on Thursday Gov. David Ige’s
request for federal individual
assistance programs to
aid residents affected by the
Kilauea eruption, just one day
after the request was made.
The approval of the request
allows six federal programs to
be deployed on the Big Island
to assist citizens in matters of
housing, counseling, insurance,
legal services and more.
IGE TRUMP
These programs — which
include the Individuals
and Households Program,
Transitional Sheltering
Assistance, Crisis
Counseling Assistance
and Training Program,
Disaster Unemployment
Assistance, Disaster Case
Management and Disaster
Legal Services — will be
available to qualified residents
at a Disaster Recovery
Center set up by the Federal
Emergency Management
Agency at the Keaau High
School gymnasium.
The recovery center, which
will be open starting today
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily,
will feature state, county and
federal agencies that will
register affected residents and
review their cases on an individual
basis to determine what
assistance they qualify for.
Gov. Ige’s request for federal aid approved
by Trump; Disaster Recovery Center opens
Lighting up the night
Index
Big Isle History B4
Classified B6
Comics B5
Commentary A4
Film cast
reacts to
volcanic
disasters
Latest ‘Jurassic Park’
film centered around
catastrophic eruption
By CALEB JONES
Associated Press
HONOLULU — The lava
pours from the ceilings. It
explodes from the mountaintop.
It creeps, then pours and roars
down the mountainside as people
frantically try to escape — with
dinosaurs chasing after them.
It’s the opening act of a
major summer blockbuster,
but the eruption part is reality
for people who live under
Big Island’s Kilauea and
Guatemala’s Fuego volcanoes.
The cast and crew of
“Jurassic World: Fallen
Kingdom” say it’s unfortunate
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KILAUEA ERUPTION
DHHL looks for funding for South Point protection efforts
The road
to Green
Sands
Beach is not
one road,
but a
crisscrossing
network
of deep ruts
carved by
regular and
unrestricted
four-
wheel-drive
traffic.
Tribune-
Herald file
Now that a finding of no significant
environmental impact has been
published for a new resources management
plan for South Point, the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
is ready to take up a project residents
have requested for three decades
— as soon as it finds the money.
South Point, also known as
Ka Lae, is believed to be the site
where ancient Polynesians from the
Marquesas Islands first made landfall
in A.D. 124 in what later became
known as the Hawaiian Islands.
It’s a popular tourist attraction
because of its green sand beach,
and it’s a popular jumping-off point
for locals and tourists interested in
high-diving off the cliffs. But offroad
vehicles have destroyed cultural
sites and eroded soil and sand.
More than 300 vehicles were counted
on each of two sample days last
June, with only about 30 percent of
them local, in a survey conducted by
DHHL consultant Townscape Inc.
“The majority of informants
supported closing down the road
to South Point to allow the land to
heal,” concludes the environmental
assessment report published June 8.
The final 836-page report can be
found at https://bit.ly/2sW4Svc.
An entrance gate and security booth
HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald
Nearby lava activity creates a red glow that blankets downtown Pahoa Wednesday evening, looking southeast on Pahoa
Village Road.
See FEMA Page A8
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
See MOVIE Page A8
By NANCY COOK LAUER
West Hawaii Today
See SOUTH POINT Page A8
Regatta season takes turn east
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