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(TNS) - Always ready. Always there.
That’s the motto of the National Guard, and for 48 days — and counting — soldiers and airmen from this component of the military have been doing safety and relief work amid volcanic threats and destruction on the east side of Hawaii island.
More than 200 Guardsmen have been assisting Hawaii County Civil Defense with jobs that include monitoring dangerous gas emissions from lava flows, manning security checkpoints, building emergency housing and conducting search-and-rescue missions.
Many of these servicemen and women are volunteers and are from around the state, including some who live on the active volcanoes that make up the Big Island and never imagined they would be responding to a lava eruption disaster in their own community.
