Maui firefighters battle three fires
Maui firefighters extinguished three small brush fires today.
A motorist reported the first fire along Pulehu Road at about 5:15 a.m., said Maui Fire Department spokesman Edward Taomoto.
Kula firefighters responded and found two 100-square foot brush fires, about 30 feet apart, near the road’s shoulder, mauka of Opalipali Place.
Crews extinguished both blazes by 5:45 a.m.
At about 1:40 p.m., firefighters responded to a 2,500-square foot grass-and-rubbish fire in a vacant lot off Honoapiilani Highway near Prison Street. That fire was extinguished at about 2:30 p.m.
Firefighters were unable to determine the cause of all three fires.