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Dogs Missing for 10 Days After Volcano Erupts, Rescuers Find Them Alive 'Surrounded by Lava'

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When Hawaii resident Carol Hosley was being evacuated by firefighters from her Leilani Estates apartment due to volcanic activity, her two dogs Brus and Little dude managed to escape.

Frightened by the commotion, the two dogs disappeared. For the next 10 days, Hosley worked with the shelter she rescued them from 6 months earlier to search for her lost dogs.

The continuously went back to the area where Brus and Little Dude escaped, but day after day, they returned empty handed.

Then finally, on Sunday May 13, Daylynn Kyles, president of the non-profit Aloha Ilio Dog Rescue, and two friends discovered the pups.

“We’ve been looking for him for 10 days, and we’ve just kept going back, and going back,” she said.

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“They were stuck behind a fence, and they couldn’t get out because the lava had surrounded them,” Kyles said. “It was crazy.”



The rescuers crawled through the grass to the fence and pulled the dogs to safety. Although they were covered in red ant bites, they were otherwise unharmed.

“We just knew this dog was probably just terrified, he was truly stuck, he couldn’t get out,” Kyles said, since the lava flow had cooled around the dogs.

The dogs were found near the 17th fissure, and miraculously escaped only a bit shaken.

“It sounded like a freight train,” Kyles said about the eruption. “You just heard these constant, big booms.”



Of course, Hosley couldn’t have been happier that her dogs had been found alive.

“I’m just thrilled to death, I just couldn’t be happier,” she said. “The other stuff is stuff, but I got the dogs.”

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Both Brus and Little Dude are staying at the Aloha Ilio Dog Rescue until Hosley is able to get back on her feet and find more permanent living arrangements.

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Liz was a senior story editor for The Western Journal.
Liz was a senior story editor for The Western Journal.
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