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Maui Mayor Michael Victorino along with the Maui Police and Fire Departments teamed up with Pacific Cancer foundation to launch its annual “GO PINK! Challenge” on Friday, Aug. 5. The Pacific Cancer Foundation campaign raises funds and awareness for Maui’s cancer community.

Maui firefighters responded to a series of three fires reported in the Maui Lani area of Kahului on Friday evening, June 28, 2013.

Several units at the Kahekili Terrace apartments on Piʻihana Road in Happy Valley were evacuated last night due to a propane leak, officials said.

Maui Fire Chief Jeffery Murray: “The public might be the lead that takes us to solve some of these issues. We just want those who are responsible to stop because its impacting a lot of innocent people.”

An 84-year-old Maui man died over the weekend, after being rescued from a burning unit at the three-story Kāʻanapali Royale residential complex last week.

The fire was concentrated in the floor between the first and second story patio of the home located on Front Street in Lahaina.

Another unscheduled cane burn was reported on Maui, this time causing an estimated $100,000 in damage and burning an estimated 26 acres in Kūʻau, officials said.

The fires, reported over a one hour, 15 minute time-span, appear to have been intentionally set, said Maui Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga.

A Maui resident was transported to the hospital in serious condition after being rescued from a burning unit at the three-story Kāʻanapali Royale residential complex last night, authorities said.

The incident was reported at 2:41 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, 2013, at the intersection of Hina and West Hawaiʻi Streets.

A structure fire at a home in Wailuku caused an estimated $15,000 in damage and forced the closure of a portion of Vineyard Street while emergency crews responded to the scene.

Three different groups of hikers, ranging in age from 18 to 57, were rescued from various locations along the trail, according to information released by Maui Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga.

The 15- by 10-foot structure was used as a sleeping area for a property caretaker, who was not at the location when the fire occurred, said Maui Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga.

Firefighters on Maui quickly doused a brush fire that burned two small areas of grass along the Mokulele Highway, officials confirmed

Two men are safe after the inflatable boat they were in lost power and began drifting in waters off of McGregor Point on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

The fire was first reported at 3:49 p.m. near the entrance of the road that leads to the Dunes at Maui Lani Golf Course maintenance building, according to a fire department officials.

At around 5:54 p.m., on May 1, 2013, authorities say fire crews were dispatched to reports of a one inch propane line leaking at a high rate of speed.

Two visitors were airlifted in serious condition after the vehicle they were in drove off an embankment and about 250-feet down a gulch at Haleakalā National Park, authorities said.

The 32-year-old man suffered a broken lower right led and sustained serious head injuries in the fall. A Maui man was airlifted from Kaihalulu Bay in Hāna on Saturday after falling about 15 feet from a rock outcropping.

A 50-year-old man from Vancouver, Washington was pronounced dead after being found face down in the water at Kamaole Beach Park III in South Maui yesterday, officials said.