Updated at 4:12 p.m., Sunday, July 1, 2007
Firefighters mop up Kauai brushfire's remaining hot spots
Advertiser Staff
On Kaua'i, personnel with the Division of Forestry and Wildlife returned early this morning to put out hot spots that remain after a brushfire burned approximately 225 acres in Wailua last night.Most of the area that was burned belongs to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands said public information officer Mary Daubert. The rest was in the Kalepa Mountain Forest Reserve.
The rain that fell in the area last night and this morning stopped the fire from reaching the top of Mt. Kalepa, although it did come close to the ridge top.
"We're going to be here all day and into the evening to mop up hot spots and monitor the situation," said Alvin Kyono, DOFAW's Kaua'i branch manager.
A bulldozer was being used to cut along the edge of the fire lines, while chainsaw operators were cutting down smoldering trees. Workers with backpack water pumps are putting out hot spots.
Helicopters are dropping buckets of water on hot spots.
