>> RELATED: Hawaii volcano shoots lava into sky; evacuations ordered
Drone footage shot by Jeremiah Osuna captured the fissure opening along a line of trees.
“It sounded like if you were to put a bunch of rocks into a dryer and turn it on as high as you could. You could just smell sulfur and burning trees and underbrush and stuff,” he told Honolulu television station KHON, according to the Associated Press.
Evacuations have been ordered for about 1,500 residents.
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