If you skip to 23 seconds in the video below you will see 2 lava fissures, I believe they are calling this Fissure 22
It looks to me like this is really one fissure with a lava cave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQO-fIMZn9Y I am going to tentatively call this one "McFrolicker's Lava Cave Number Two." What is more interesting about this one is how close it is to the Geothermal Plant. ( about 100 yards away ) I have a hunch if you look to the west at the other nearby fissures that are no longer active, that they are all connected, and someday ( in a couple of years ) tourist will be able to explore the lava tube. Another house burned down today in the Kapoho area. It is hard to tell exactly because so many roads are erased, but I am pretty sure it is this one: https://goo.gl/maps/ZJ1FoZxw1T12 What is interesting about the flow today, is that the active ocean entry point is now 1-1/2 mile wide, meaning that entire stretch of newly formed coastline has lava pooring over it into the ocean. There is something like 500 new acres of beach-front property, that will be void of vegetation for 50 to 100 years. Much of that will collapse in the coming years forming beautiful tidepools.
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