Word: uplands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks largely to the efforts of two Hawaiian boys who ran from house to house alerting the residents, and to motorists and Coast Guardsmen who rescued them, no one was caught in the stream of lava. It swept over patches of taro root and through upland ranches firing houses, a church, a post office, trees and telephone poles, cutting communications. The lava piled ten feet high on the main coastal highway...