Hawaii Island police are investigating a report made Friday by a Pahoa resident who said a man with a clipboard showed up at her home and claimed to be a government agency official who was there to assess any possible damage done to her property due to the lava flow.
Daryl Oliveira, administrator of Hawaii County Civil Defense, said in a Sunday telephone press conference that nothing has been yet confirmed.
Oliveira said that such a person “would have an official government ID and vehicle to identify himself, as well as probably wearing a safety vest.”
Besides barricades and roadblocks to keep outsiders clear of the Pahoa area, “there is a significant law enforcement presence of police and National Guard in the area,” he said.
When asked how could such a person get past the roadblocks, Oliveira said that “there is some indication that this could’ve been an resident in the area. We’ll have a better idea of the population that are in the blocked-in area, including those who are homeless, who may not have been previously accounted for.”
