Updated at 8:40 a.m., Thursday, August 9, 2007
3 suspicious fires snuffed in Kailua, Kona business area
Advertiser Staff
Big Island police are investigating three small fires that appeared to have been deliberately set within minutes of one another in the Kailua, Kona business district early this morning.The fires, which began about 3 a.m., were reported at Kopiko Plaza, behind The Club and at the Kailua Volkswagen dealership on Ololi Road.
Big island fire officials said the three fires were within a single block.
The first — in an unused elevator lobby at Kopiko Plaza — damaged the building and storage equipment.
In the second incident, cardboard boxes and wooden pallets were found burning against a wall in back of The Club.
The third fire was found burning in an area containing 55-gallon drums of waste oil behind the Volkswagen dealership.
All three of the fires were extinguished by 3:37 a.m.
Damage estimates were not available.
