Updated at 6:19 p.m., Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Cigarette, stove started fires in Kapolei, Wahiawa
Advertiser Staff
A discarded cigarette started a fire early today that caused $30,000 damage to a Kapolei home's garage and its contents.Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Terry Seelig said the cigarette ignited a couch in the garage of a home at 91-1009 Koanimakani St. Three engine and one ladder company responded to the 4:35 a.m. alarm.
Seelig said neighbors used garden hoses to control the fire before HFD's arrival. The fire was extinguished at 4:45 a.m.
Firefighters also responded to a 7:26 a.m. apartment fire today in Wahiawa, said Seelig.
Investigators determined the fire in a unit of Nani Wai Apartments at 370 Wilikina Drive was started by a pot containing cooking oil that was left on a stove that had not been turned off, according to Seelig.
Three people in the apartment when the fire started escaped injury.
Damage in the Wahiawa fire was estimated at $30,000.
