Truck fire shuts down freeway for 2 hours

The H-1 freeway eastbound between Bingham Street and Wilder Avenue was closed for two hours Wednesday morning because of a truck fire.

At one time, both eastbound and westbound lanes of the freeway near Punahou School were closed.

Neither the truck driver nor a passenger was injured.

Police said the truck was carrying an air-conditioner unit and other flammable materials. The truck was heading east at 8:41 a.m. just past the Bingham Street offramp when a passing motorist told the driver that the truck was on fire.

Because items in the truck bed exploded, the freeway was closed and traffic diverted onto Punahou and Bingham streets, police said.

Eastbound lanes were reopened at 10:35 a.m.

Man hospitalized after near drowning

A San Francisco man nearly drowned at Waikiki Beach about 2:10 p.m. Wednesday.

The man, 51, was found floating face down in the water and his nephew pulled him out, said Emergency Services Department spokeswoman Shayne Enright. Lifeguards found he was not breathing and had no pulse, so they performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and revived him.

He was taken by ambulance to a trauma center in critical condition.

Suspect sought in attempted kidnapping

Police are looking for a man who tried to kidnap a 19-year-old woman from a Kaneohe parking lot Tuesday afternoon.

The victim was walking in the lot at 3:45 p.m. when a man in his 30s approached her and tried to start a conversation. The victim told police that he then grabbed her and forced her into a parked car.

She managed to escape and called police.

Break-in at preschool results in arrest

A 20-year-old man was arrested after he broke into a private Wahiawa preschool Tuesday night and was caught looking at pictures, according to police.

Neighbors heard glass breaking at the school at 6:13 p.m. in the 100 block of California Avenue and called police. The suspect was found in one of the classrooms searching through pictures.

He was arrested on suspicion of second-degree burglary.