Posted on: Sunday, May 15, 2005
Blazes battled on Maui, Big Island
| • | Fires threaten homes |
By Karen Blakeman
Advertiser Staff Writer
On the Big Island yesterday, firefighters were still working to keep down a brush fire that started Thursday and burned about 900 acres in South Point.
"They're just working on the hot spots," a fire dispatcher said, "but we'll have units out there through the night."
The fire began Thursday afternoon in the Green Sand Beach area of South Point and had been contained by Friday. Firefighters have remained on the scene to keep the fire under control since Thursday. No one had been injured in the blaze and no homes were threatened, Big Island firefighters said yesterday.
Firefighters on Maui fought a brush fire yesterday that appeared to have been intentionally set.
The fire started about 3 p.m. between Kuihelani Highway and Maui Lani golf course, said Battalion Chief David Kamalani. It originated in two places.
Trade winds blew the fire away from a nearby line of homes, he said.
About eight acres burned before Maui County firefighters, assisted by a Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company tanker, brought the fire under control at about 5 p.m.
Reach Karen Blakeman at 535-2430 or kblakeman@honoluluadvertiser.com.
