Ige forms joint task force to ‘streamline military response’ to Kilauea eruption

View uprift from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory overflight this morning at 8:25 a.m. Wednesday. Note sulfur dioxide plumes rising from the fissures along the rift and accumulating in the cloud deck. Winds are calm today.(HVO/Special to West Hawaii Today)
Same area between fissures 16 and 20 at 9:33 a.m. Wednesday By the time geologists reached the site on foot, the spattering had died down and they were only hearing gas rushing sounds. (HVO/Special to West Hawaii Today)
Lava spatters from an area between fissures 16 and 20 photographed at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday. (HVO/Special to West Hawaii Today)

HILO — Gov. David Ige announced the formation of a dual-status command joint task force for the Kilauea eruption that would allow Brig. Gen. Kenneth Hara to command active military personnel and the Hawaii National Guard.

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