Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, began erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island Monday. Lava bubbled within the summit caldera, a remote and closed-off area in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

The National Park Service has warned people to be more careful when visiting the erupting Kīlauea volcano after a recent close call involving a family visiting the park.

One family’s Christmas holiday at a Hawaii national park almost ended in tragedy after a toddler nearly fell into a smouldering crater. The US National Park Service has issued an urgent warning to tourists after a child nearly fell into the active crater of the Kilauea volcano before he was rescued ‘in the nick of time.