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Title: 21 Devastating Photos from Hawaii's Volcano Eruption
Post by: rangerrebew on June 02, 2018, 02:26:28 pm

21 Devastating Photos from Hawaii's Volcano Eruption

The man whose leg was shattered by a flaming “lava bomb” has finally spoken out.
 
By Lyndsey Matthews   
May 24, 2018
 

The man whose leg was shattered by a flaming “lava bomb”—the first-known injury from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano—has finally spoken out. Darryl Clinton was helping evacuate a home when a chunk of lava hit him in the leg.

"It basically snapped my leg in half, but right above the ankle,” Clinton told CNN. "So my foot and my ankle were hanging by basically the back of my flesh, maybe my Achilles was still there. But all the other stuff was severed, so I had to hold my shoe."

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/g20264868/hawaii-volcano-eruption-2018-photos/ (https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/g20264868/hawaii-volcano-eruption-2018-photos/)