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Just before noon, HST, on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, lava pushed through the fence at the southwest corner of the Pāhoa transfer station and moved down the slope onto the station grounds. The flames are caused by burning asphalt.

The flow lobe that destroyed a residence on Monday has also inflated significantly. Here, an HVO geologist examines the margin of that lobe. A barbed wire fence was surrounded and tilted towards the camera as the flow inflated, so that the fence is now nearly horizontal. The red roof in the background is the garage structure near the house that burned on Monday.

Deployment of an instrumented quadrapod off Martha’s Vineyard, November 2014.

Inflation is a common characteristic of active pāhoehoe flows. Here, a flow has inflated up to the level of the Pāhoa transfer station fence. A glowing crack provides evidence of the flow's molten interior.

 An instrumented bottom lander is deployed south of Martha's Vineyard, MA in 2014 as part of the “Bottom Stress and the Generation of Vertical Vorticity Over the Inner Shelf” project.

Helicopter view looking west across the lower part of the June 27th lava flow. Smoke plumes show areas of active lava breakouts. The transfer station is in the middle of the image (white roofed structures). At upper left, smoke rises from the margin of a new, northeastward directed finger of lava.

This small-scale map shows the June 27th lava flow on Kīlauea's East Rift Zone in relation to lower Puna. The area of the flow on November 7, 2014, at 3:30 PM is shown in pink, while widening and advancement of the flow as mapped on November 10 at 10:45 AM is shown in red.

This large-scale map shows the distal part of the June 27th flow in relation to nearby Puna communities. The area of the flow on November 7, 2014, at 3:30 PM is shown in pink, while widening and advancement of the flow as mapped on November 10 at 10:45 AM is shown in red.

Helicopter view of the June 27th flow tip showing areas of active lava on the morning of November 10. Smoke from burning vegetation rises from the north margin of the flow.

This map uses a satellite image acquired in March 2014 (provided by Digital Globe) as a base at 1:13,000 scale to show the area around the front of the June 27th lava flow. The area of the flow on November 7, 2014, at 3:30 PM is shown in pink, while expansion of the flow as mapped on November 10 at 10:45 AM is shown in red.

Helicopter view looking upslope along the June 27 flow from above Pāhoa. Plumes of smoke from burning vegetation mark areas of active lava breakouts.

The active flow lobe advancing along Cemetery Road / AP‘A‘ā Street approaches a new steel power pole that is surrounded by a cinder barrier.

An active flow above Cemetery Road / AP‘A‘ā Street is within approximately 20 meters (22 yards) of the Pāhoa transfer station fence.

Active flow lobes burn grass in the pasture just across Cemetery Road / AP‘A‘ā Street from the Pāhoa transfer station.

The inflated flow field below the Pāhoa cemetery looking northeast toward the houses on Pāhoa Village Road. Note geologist in the center of the photo for scale.

A new lobe of lava burned along Cemetery Road / AP‘A‘ā Street after it crossed early Sunday morning.

Lava pours from an active breakout near the Pāhoa transfer station.

Breakouts remain active in the area of the cemetery, which is just beyond the row of small trees in the center of the photograph. The smoke plume is from an active breakout burning the pasture grass.

One of many fallen trees on the lava flow surface.

Although the leading tip of the June 27th flow remains stalled, breakouts continue to be active upslope. This breakout was active about 400 meters (0.25 miles) upslope of Cemetery Road / AP‘A‘ā Street.

This view from the helicopter shows the light gray, recent pāhoehoe lava that emerged from the tube skylight and nearly destroyed two timelapse cameras. The summit of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō is out of view at upper right.