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Police search for woman, 75
Police are looking for a 75-year-old Wai'anae woman suffering from dementia who has been missing for two days.
Helen Hun was last seen at about 11 a.m. Monday at her Alapaki Street home. Police said she may have boarded a city bus. They are searching near Ma'ili'ili Stream.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact investigator Phil Camero at 529-3394 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME by cellular phone.
Man who died in fight identified
A man who died Sunday after being punched in a fight outside a North Shore restaurant was identified today by the medical examiner's office as Darryl Cobb-Adams, 40, of Mililani.
Cobb-Adams was found unconscious in the parking lot of Haleiwa Joe's Seafood Grill at 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Police said he was punched during an argument, fell to the ground and struck his head. Cobb-Adams was taken to The Queen's Medical Center where he died at 3:58 p.m. Sunday.
Police are investigating the case as a murder and have made no arrests.
Woman hit by pickup critical
An 86-year-old woman who was struck by a pickup truck while crossing Kapi'olani Boulevard yesterday was in critical condition today at The Queen's Medical Center, police said.
Investigators said the woman was in a crosswalk when she was hit by a 2003 Ford pickup truck driven by a 19-year-old man at 10:55 a.m. The truck was turning left from Mahukona Street onto Kapi'olani when the accident occurred.
The woman was taken to the hospital with chest pains and unknown internal injuries, police said.
Fire crews back on Koko Crater
Firefighters returned to the base of Koko Crater today to reassess the lingering remains of a brushfire that scorched 100 acres and briefly threatened homes Sunday.
Keawe stumps within the charred area burned yesterday and overnight, prompting calls from concerned residents.
Capt. Norbert Pokini of the Hawai'i Kai station said today that as long as the fires were within the burned areas, there was no threat. If fires were closer to homes on the lower flanks, especially along Pakala Street, a backhoe may be used to put them out, Pokini said.
Keawe trees are hard to put out, said Capt. Kevin Browne, a fire department spokesman.
"When the wind kicks up, it ignites them again," Browne said. "I think they are just concerned that none of the embers get blown far."
