A 30-year-old Waialua woman was in critical condition yesterday at The Queen's Medical Center after being hit Sunday night by a van while walking along Kahekili Highway near Ahuimanu Place in Kane'ohe.

Police said a 38-year-old Kane'ohe woman was driving north on Kahekili about 11:05 p.m. when a pickup truck made a U-turn in front of her. The woman told police she looked in her rear-view mirror at the truck when she felt her van hit something.

The driver got out of her van and found the pedestrian lying on the road.

Police said the injured woman was taken to Queen's in critical condition with multiple injuries.

There are street lights along the stretch of Kahekili where the incident happened, but the area is still very dark, traffic investigators said.

BIG ISLAND

3 HELD IN SHOOTING OF VOLCANO MAN

HILO — Two men and a woman have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a 50-year-old man at his Mauna Loa Estates home in Volcano early Saturday.

Police were called to the man's home at 12:45 a.m. and found him conscious with multiple gunshot wounds.

The man was taken to the Hilo Medical Center and later flown to The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, where he was listed in stable condition after surgery, police said.

Police arrested a 27-year-old Pahoa man, a 28-year-old Pahoa man and a 51-year-old Pahoa woman Sunday in connection with the case.

All three were being held in the Hilo police cellblock yesterday.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Detective Richard Sherlock at 961-2379 or the police non-emergency number at 935-3311.

MAUI

FIREFIGHTERS HAVE BUSY WEEKEND

WAILUKU — Weary Maui firefighters got some rest yesterday after a brutal week in which they battled a rash of maliciously set fires that scorched hundreds of acres of brush.

Crews fought seven more suspicious brushfires over the weekend, and authorities are hoping the public will keep their eyes open for and report any strange behavior, officials said yesterday.

The largest of the weekend's fires occurred early Sunday morning in the Launiupoko area of West Maui. About 120 acres of brush were blackened, but no structures were lost. Honoapi'ilani Highway was closed for about 3 1/2 hours before the blaze was contained at 11 a.m., officials said.

Fire crews were busy all week. A series of suspicious fires last Tuesday along Honoapi'ilani Highway merged into one big fire that burned 200 acres between Ma'alaea and the scenic lookout, while another fire that started in the hills above Lahaina burned for several days, consuming 120 acres.

Officials asked that anyone with information on the Maui fires call the police at (808) 244-6425 or Maui CrimeStoppers at (808) 242-6966.

CrimeStoppers has offered a $1,000 reward.