Updated at 9:35 p.m., Friday, July 6, 2007
Second Ewa Beach fire under control
By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer
Limited access into and out of the Iroquois Point Island Club subdivision, formerly Pu'uloa Naval Housing, was once again being allowed although fire trucks continued to block one lane of North Road, Honolulu Fire Capt. Robert Main said.
Access to the subdivision through Iroquois Point Road via Geiger Road, however, remained closed.
About 80 to 100 acres burned in the area on the mauka side of North Road.
The fire began about 3:20 p.m. near West Loch Road along a Naval reservation, Main said.
Firefighters had a difficult time walking into the brush toward the blaze, Main said.
The fire is the second occurring in the 'Ewa region today.
Earlier, a fire burned about about 10 acres mauka of Iroquois Point Road near the gate of the U.S, Naval Magazine.
That blaze was put under control shortly after 3 p.m.
That fire site is behind an ''Ewa By Gentry subdivision east of Keaunui Drive.
Main said the Honolulu Police Department's brush fire task force has been called in to investigate the two fires.
Officials need to at least look into the possibility of arson given the timing and proximity of the two fires.
"It's kind of hard when you have two fires that far apart about the same time," he said.
