Hawaii National Park has issued a new warning for hikers after a child was caught “just in time” falling from the edge of an erupting volcano.
The little boy broke away from his family and “in a split second ran straight to the 400-foot cliff edge” of the Kilauea volcano, the park said.
“His mother, screaming, managed to grab him,” the park added in a statement, when the toddler was “just a foot or so from a fatal fall.”
Park ranger Jessica Ferrocan, who witnessed the incident, told the BBC she hoped revealing the details of the incident would help “prevent future tragedies”.
