A neighbor has identified the couple killed in a Pauoa Valley house fire Monday as Harry and Jeanette Inouye.

“We spoke all the time,” John Fielden said Tuesday about Harry Inouye. “We’re next-door neighbors. We watch out for each other.”

Fielden, who has lived next door to the Inouyes for 20 years, said they were the original owners of the house at 444 Kekuanoni Place, and their grandson and his family lived downstairs.

It was the Inouyes’ 15-year-old great-grandson who escaped from the burning house, he said.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office has neither released the victims’ identities nor provided causes of death.

The midday blaze caused an estimated $450,000 in damage, and the house was considered a total loss, the Honolulu Fire Department spokesman said.

HFD investigators are continuing their investigation into the cause of the fire, Capt. David Jenkins said Tuesday.

Woman, 42, arrested in cellphone theft

A 42-year-old Ewa Beach woman was arrested Monday after she stole a cellphone from a 17-year-old boy, police said.

The incident happened in Ewa Beach at about 3 p.m. Aug. 5. Police later arrested the woman for investigation of felony theft at 3:20 p.m. Monday at the Ewa Beach Shopping Center. Police said the cellphone was valued at more than $300.