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HAWAI‘I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK

What other job do you turn up to only to find that your place of work has largely been destroyed… by lava? And it was kind of expected. Pity the rangers of one of Hawai‘i’s five national parks, who experienced just that in 2018.

Hawai‘i’s Volcanoes National Park changed dramatically from May until August that year when one of the most active volcanoes in the world, Kīlauea, erupted and transformed not only the national park but the island of Hawai‘i itself. Now

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