tonight, blue flames, toxic gas, homes in danger of falling into giant cracks in the earth. the newest explosions from kilauea are getting hotter and more dangerous and stephanie elam is there. more than three weeks in and kilauea shows no sign of letting up. this is my backyard. reporter: residents forced to dodge creeping lava flows, as they rush in and out to check on their property. are you concerned about how much you re breathing in here? i am. i feel saturated when i go home at night. i just feel like i can t get clean. it feels like it s stuck on my skin and my lungs. reporter: the images getting stranger by the day. here, methane gas from burning veg taketation creates blue fla rising from cracks in the road. lava bombs raining down on homes. snapped it in half at the ankle and foot. reporter: darryl clinton was struck by a bowling ball-sized lava bomb as he checked on his homes. this cnn interview with clinton,
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it came right through there somehow and at an angle and just crashed into my leg about right here and snapped it in half at the ankle and foot to where my leg was basically broken in half. it was like a hinge point, ankle, foot, leg, so then i got caught on fire. fell on floor and grabbed my foot and leg and held them together. i mean, unreal. james webster is with me, a geologist with the american museum of natural history here in new york. jim, i don t even know what to say. i went to kilauea as a kid and seeing a guy in a hospital because of a lava bomb. what is that? so a lava bomb is actually it was molten material that was blown out of a fissure or a small cone in the ground. and it is cooling as it moves through the air but still very
100 yards from the fishers, what happened? we re not just taking about any if i sure here, we re talking about a fizz sure that was exploding every one or two minutes sending hot lava into every direction. deal clinton was there. this was not a for fun place to be. even just walking up to the house was a life and death game of frogger and clinton was staying there virtually around the clock for almost a week. she was armed with a fire extinguisher, a garden hose and bucks to put out fires if the lava hit the house. lava bombs came through the ceilings in two different places, broke a window, took out a septic tank, none of this seems to faze clinton. this lava bomb came and hit right here, we put that fire out. the first day?
his house when a lava bomb hit him in the leg. reporter: i wonder if you recognize the fact that had this of hit you somewhere else, you might be dead. yeah. i ve thought about it a couple times, and it scares me to think about it. it could have also missed me and went between my legs, too. i think about that more wouldn t that have been nice? lava has now reached the geothermal power plant. officials are trying to avoid explosions by filling wells with cold water. at a community meeting in pahoa last night, officials warned residents to prepare for a long haul. it s hard to see the upside of being hit with a lava bomb. indeed. if your kids won t move out no matter how many hints you drop, you can always turn to a judge. family drama in upstate new york where a judge ruling in favor of a 30-year-old ruling against