The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a call around 6 a.m. that crew members and passengers were injured after a “basketball-sized” scrap of lava tore through a tour boat’s roof, county officials told Hawaii News Now. Four of the injured were transported by ambulance to Hilo Medical Center, the local outlet reported.
A spokesman from the DLNR told HuffPost that 13 people received hospital treatment, though the Hawaii Fire Department reported a total of 23 injured. The other 10 people were treated for superficial injuries upon the boat’s return to Wailoa Harbor, according to CNN.
“A 20-year old woman received major trauma to her leg and the others suffered burns and scrapes,” DLNR said in its Facebook post.
The Hawaii Fire Department did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Kilauea volcano, where the lava explosion originated, is located on Hawaii’s Big Island. It has destroyed hundreds of homes since it began erupting in May. Officials are investigating the incident and have initial reports that the tour boat was operating outside the U.S. Coast Guard’s established safety zone.
Though the agency has prohibited boats from getting closer than 984 feet from the lava’s ocean entry points, the Coast Guard does allow experienced boat operators to apply for a special license to get up to 164 feet from the lava, The Associated Press reports.
A lava flow moves on Makamae Street on Sunday in Leilani Estates.
Lava erupts from a fissure east of the Leilani Estates subdivision during ongoing eruptions on May 13, 2018.
Lava erupts from a fissure in Leilani Estates on Saturday.
Carolyn McNamara, 70, hugs her neighbor Paul Campbell, 68, at an evacuation center in Pahoa after moving out of their homes in the Puna community of Leilani Estates on Friday.
A column of robust, reddish-brown ash plume looms over the Big Island on Friday.
A man watches as lava spews from a fissure in Leilani Estates on Friday.
Visitors view the Halemaumau crater within the Kilauea volcano summit caldera at the re-opened Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Monday.
Lava from volcanic fissures slowly flows and overtakes structures and trees in Leilani Estates on Sunday.
People take photos of lava as steam rises from a fissure in Leilani Estates on Friday.
A plume of gas mixed with smoke from fires caused by lava rises amid clouds in Leilani Estates on Sunday.
The collapsed Puu Oo crater, which formed on April 30, spews ash on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on Thursday.
A man climbs onto a petrified lava flow from long ago for a picture of the plume of volcanic smoke over Leilani Estates on Sunday.
A crack opened on Pahoa's Pohoiki Road on Saturday.
Personnel at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park turn people away on Saturday.
Police and the National Guard check the identification of every vehicle passenger before allowing evacuees to return to their homes in Leilani Estates on Sunday.
The level of the summit's lava lake has reportedly dropped since last week.
Vehicles head for the intersection of Pahoa and Kapoho roads as evacuees are allowed to return to their Leilani Estates homes to gather belongings on Sunday.
A fissure in Leilani Estates lights up its surroundings on Friday.
U.S. Geological Survey scientists monitor Kilauea's eruption spatter on the roads in Leilani Estates on Sunday.
Smoke and volcanic gases rise as lava cools in the Leilani Estates neighborhood, in the aftermath of eruptions and lava flows from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, on May 11, 2018.
Parishioners pray at Sacred Heart Church on Hawaii's Big Island on Sunday.
A lava fissure erupts in the aftermath of eruptions from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, on May 12, 2018.
In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, a lava flow emerges from a fissure as a result of Kilauea volcano activity on Hawaii's Big Island on May 13, 2018.
Lava erupts from a fissure east of the Leilani Estates subdivision on May 13, 2018.
The latest Kilauea volcano activity illuminates the sky and is reflected off a vehicle (Bottom) on Hawaii's Big Island on May 14, 2018.
Lava flows at a new fissure in the aftermath of eruptions from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island as a local resident walks nearby after taking photos on May 12, 2018.
Lieutenant Aaron Hew Lew, of the Hawaii National Guard, measures levels of toxic sulfur dioxide gas on May 8, 2018.
Molten rock flows and burst to the surface, threatening homes in a rural area in this still image from an aerial video taken from a Hawaii Army National Guard a week after the eruption of the Kilauea volcano, in Pahoa, Hawaii, U.S., May 10, 2018.
Puna District resident Ray Kaaihue (L), 47, listens with his wife Jennifer, 46, their daughter Kieryn, 22, and Kieryn's daughter, Karsyn, 1, during a community meeting on the ongoing eruptions on May 7, 2018.
Major Jeff Hickman, of the Hawaii National Guard, takes a photo in the Leilani Estates subdivision on May 13, 2018.
An ash plume rises from the Halemaumau crater within the Kilauea volcano summit caldera at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on May 9, 2018.
U.S. Army National Guard soldiers take measurements for dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide gas near a volcanic fissure in the Leilani Estates neighborhood on May 10, 2018.
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