Goodfellow Bros. Inc. began work on Wednesday to clear nearly a mile of solidified lava to prepare an evacuation route through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in the event the only highway leading from the coast is cut off by the latest eruption of Kilauea volcano.
The National Park Service and Hawaii Department of Transportation signed an agreement to clear 0.7 miles along the coastal stretch of Chain of Craters-Kalapana Road as an alternative to Highway 130, which is under the risk of being inundated…