"I don't want to stick around and just wait for it to come and take it," Denise Lagrimas said while taking a break from loading kitchen cups and bowls in cardboard boxes. "You just never know."
She said they decided to move to Kurtistown because it's a safe distance away. "Never in my wildest dreams as a kid growing up did I think I would be running from lava," Denise Lagrimas said.
Erbin Gamurot, 48, a handyman, said Pele, the volcano goddess, just wants to visit her sister, Namakaokahai, the sea goddess. "She gotta go see her sister. She gotta go say hi. You know how family are. It's all good," Gamuret said.