#Fire

Heavy equipment was deployed to help contain a brush fire that burned about 25 acres in Waiehu mauka of Kahekili Highway near Maka’ala Drive, fire officials said in an update Thursday afternoon.

Trees at Lydgate Beach Park, ‘Anini Beach Park and Anahola Beach Park were recently found burned. Police reports have been made.

A brush fire that burned about 1 acre along Maunaloa Highway near Kaluakoʻi Road was 100% contained Sunday evening, according to the Maui Fire Department.

Maui County officials identified two more victims in the Aug. 8 Lahaina fire Monday, bringing the total to 45.

Various local volunteers help community in Lahaina after fire disaster.

The Maui County Department of Environmental Management is offering mobile waste and hygiene facilities to support grassroots resource locations.

The fire, which was located half a mile below Keahua Road and 100 yards south of Haleakala Highway, was extinguished a little over an hour from when it was reported.

Fourteen shipping containers full of construction equipment and emergency shelter supplies were discovered burning inside-out at the Army National Guard Armory Friday morning.

Upon arrival, crews reported about a half acre of brush actively burning on the north slope of the gulch adjacent to ʻĀina Lani Drive.  Authorities say the fire was within 20 feet of area homes.

Maui fire crews on Saturday continued to battle a fire at the Maui EKO Systems composting facility located on leased land at the Central Maui Landfill.

Maui firefighters were called to a vehicle fire on Huali Way in Kahului early Sunday morning, July 16, 2017.

Maui firefighters responded to reports of small brush fires in Kula and Lahaina on Saturday.

Makawao firefighters extinguished five fires that were deemed suspicious in nature on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, in the park below the Mayor Hanibal Tavares Community Center and Upcountry swimming pool.

Maui firefighters responded to multiple reports of a fire above Pāʻia Town on Christmas Eve. The incident was reported at 7:23 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016.

Hower recently debuted his first photo exhibit on Maui, “Fire, Water, & Light” featuring some of his finest photographs that have been taken in Maui and other exotic locations.

A fire at a Kapalua home in the Plantation Golf Estates appears suspicious in nature, according to county authorities. The fire was first reported at 5:42 p.m. Saturday at an unoccupied 2-story estate home on Keoawa Street. Crews from Lahaina, Napili, Kahului and Kihei were dispatched to the scene. Firefighters worked overnight to control the […]

Governor Linda Lingle delivered her eighth and final State of the State Address today. The governor outlined priorities for the legislative session including a specific proposal to change the state’s rainy day fund, renaming and revising it to a Fiscal Stabilization Fund to shield Hawaii in future years from the need to raise taxes during […]

By Wendy Osher President Barack Obama made a statement this morning about the Christmas Day terror incident in which a suspect attempted to detonate a bomb aboard a flight bound for Detroit. President Obama issued the special statement from Hawaii where he and the rest first family are spending their holiday. “Here’s what we know […]

Maui Police positively identified the charred remains of a woman found following a home fire in Ulupalakua over the weekend.  Dental records were used to positively ID the woman as 49-year-old Cheryl Lynn Ledbetter of Olympia, Washington. The early morning fire at the Kini Drive residence was first reported at 1:13 a.m.   Fire crews found […]

OLOWALU TRAFFIC UPDATE (4:37 p.m.) Firefighters are wrapping up mop up operations of a small brush fire in Olowalu and have removed their equipment from the Highway. Both lanes of the Honoapiilani Highway are being used at this time, but traffic is slower than usual. Earlier this afternoon, Maui Police had used the cane haul […]