It was supposed to be a nice father-daughter day out. Instead, Lillani Hopkins and her dad found themselves tending to 23 survivors of the volcanic explosion on New Zealand's White Island.
She had purchased tickets to the island in the Bay of Plenty as a gift for her father's birthday, marking 24 years since he last visited the natural wonder.
"We were maybe on the boat a couple of minutes, we moved around the corner for a last look at the crater from a different bay and that's when we saw it erupt." "I honestly thought it would be eye washes, cleaning up from the ash ... So when I first saw people and the state they were in, I froze. And then I realised they just kept bringing more and more people," she said.Lillani Hopkins
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