HONOLULU (KHON2) - The woman injured by a lava bomb on a tour boat remains in the hospital, unable to get out of bed, more than two weeks after it happened. With a long road to recovery, Jessica Tilton says she still doesn't know when she can go home. The 22-year-old Illinois resident was emotional talking about what happened. She said she remembers telling her family that they were getting dangerously close just before the lava bomb hit the boat. "Everything just went black and you didn't see anything. You just felt like you were suffocating and I thought I was dying," she said. Tilton was sitting closest to the railing, and says she leaned over to protect her sister sitting right next to her, when a lava rock about two feet in diameter hit her. "I kept screaming my leg because my leg hurt. I heard the captain saying is anyone hurt, and my dad was saying my daughter, my daughter," she said. She's grateful to those who helped, including two surgeons who were also sightseeing.
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Tourist Jessica Tilton says she was leaning over to protect her sister when she was hit by a lava bomb on a tourist boat in Hawaii.
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HONOLULU (KHON2) - The woman injured by a lava bomb on a tour boat remains in the hospital, unable to get out of bed, more than two weeks after it happened. With a long road to recovery, Jessica Tilton says she still doesn't know when she can go home. The 22-year-old Illinois resident was emotional talking about what happened. She said she remembers telling her family that they were getting dangerously close just before the lava bomb hit the boat. "Everything just went black and you didn't see anything. You just felt like you were suffocating and I thought I was dying," she said. Tilton was sitting closest to the railing, and says she leaned over to protect her sister sitting right next to her, when a lava rock about two feet in diameter hit her. "I kept screaming my leg because my leg hurt. I heard the captain saying is anyone hurt, and my dad was saying my daughter, my daughter," she said. She's grateful to those who helped, including two surgeons who were also sightseeing.
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In this May 24, 2018 photo from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, lava erupts from a fissure in the Leilani Estates neighborhood near Pahoa on the island of Hawaii. Three lava flows from eruptions of Kilauea volcano are now flowing into the ocean off Hawaii's Big Island. Hawaii County officials say the third flow started pouring into the sea Thursday. Lava is spewing from a fissure in a rural community that's feeding the two other flows that are reaching the waves. (Grace Simoneau/FEMA via AP)
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