Updated at 6:38 p.m., Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Fire guts Enchanted Lake house; no one hurt
Advertiser Staff
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No one was hurt in the 3 p.m. fire at 508 Papalani St.
Two passers-by, Nephi Olson and Howard Doctorello, said they stopped and alerted residents on either side of the burning house and helped them get out.
"I was driving by and saw flames shooting out the windows," said Doctorello, 47, manager of American Standard Concrete Pumping. "We just started getting people out."
Olson, 31, a mortgage broker who lives nearby, said he drove to where he saw smoke and started pounding on doors and yelling in windows of the houses to see if anyone was home.
Doctorello and Olson also helped residents move their cars away from the fire.
No one was home in the house where the fire started. The house to the Kane'ohe side of the burned house was extensively damaged.
Firefighters extinguished the fire in about 20 minutes.
