"We can see the smoke and kind of a glow, especially at night," one resident said

There’s trouble in paradise.

The Hawaiian village of Pahoa is under slow-moving siege by a creeping lava flow that’s forcing residents to abandon their homes, leaving the residences susceptible to marauding bands of looters.

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“Crime is starting to pick up because a lot of people abandoned their houses. Two of my brother-in-laws’ houses got ripped off,” Matt Purvis, owner of the Tin Shack Bakery on the Big Island, told CNN on Monday.

The flow, which has already engulfed Pahoa’s cemetery, originates from Kilauea Volcano – and was still erupting at its summit as of Monday afternoon.

Though the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said in its afternoon advisory Monday that the flow had slowed, the volcano’s continued eruption still presents a threat, and residents of Pahoa aren’t resting easy.

“We can see the smoke and kind of a glow, especially at night,” said Purvis. “The whole town is really concerned and is nervous, and I am too. It’s definitely concerning and the biggest is the unknown.”

The video above, filmed Oct. 25, shows an aerial view of the lava flow taken from a Phantom drone.

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