Nearly a dozen hikers at Kalalau Trail spent an extra night camping at the Napali Coast State Wilderness Park after a Kauai stream flooded Tuesday afternoon.

Lifeguards hiked from Kee Beach to Hanakapiai Stream and advised the people to stay put until the stream level dropped. The campers crossed the stream Wednesday.

Two visitors, Valeria Gracheva and Martin Guski of Germany, said they saw a man and a woman attempt to cross the rushing, chest-deep stream water using a thin makeshift line, according to a news release by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. At one point, the woman lost her grip and fell into the stream. Her companion grabbed her and they were able to get out of the water.

The state closed Kalalau Trail at about 5 p.m. Tuesday and reopened it at about noon Wednesday.

Big Island fire investigators seek public help

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources and Hawaii County Police and Fire departments are seeking help from the public in an investigation of fires in the Puuanahulu area.

The latest fire began early Wednesday south of the Kona hunter check station in the Puuanahulu Game Management Unit. The small fire was extinguished quickly, DLNR said. The three others started Feb. 11 in the same area.

The four fires have burned more than 775 acres of brush and grass.

DLNR officials said Wednesday afternoon the fires were contained.