A fire in Maui sugar cane fields that had not been scheduled for burning consumed about about 315 acres on Monday.

Maui County officials said Kahului firefighters arrived on Pulehu Road about 12:36 p.m. and found about 5 acres of sugar cane burning just off the south side of Pulehu Road, and a half-mile mauka of the Central Maui Landfill.

Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar crews used heavy equipment to keep the fire from spreading to the south toward Kihei. Company personnel managed to put it out after it had consumed 315 acres of sugar cane from two separate fields and about 200 acres of brush.

The cause has been classified as undetermined.