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The Marco Polo condo fire was a high-rise fire that occurred at 2:17 p.m. on July 14, 2017, in the 36-story Marco Polo condominium building at 2333 Kapiolani Boulevard in the McCully-Mōʻiliʻili neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. [5] 4 people were killed, and 13 others (including 1 firefighter) were injured.
In early August 2023, a series of wildfires broke out in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui.The wind-driven fires prompted evacuations and caused widespread damage, killing at least 102 people and leaving two people missing in the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coast.
Central Fire Station, about 1901. In 1901, just after the devastating Chinatown fire of 1900, the city of Honolulu had three fire stations. The Central Fire Station at that time was a lava-rock building of two-and-a-half stories designed in 1896 by Clinton Briggs Ripley and C.W. Dickey in the Richardsonian Romanesque style that dominated the downtown area at that time.
The fire in Pearl City has expanded to about 5 acres of marshland. As of 2 :17 p.m. today, HFD said it was 50 % contained with no threat to ... Honolulu firefighters battle several wildland fires ...
Feb. 3—Honolulu firefighters extinguished a rubbish fire Friday afternoon in Makiki that was started by wind-driven embers from a fire pit. The Honolulu Fire Department received a 911 call at 2: ...
The fire that started on Aug. 8, 2023, claimed at least 102 lives and destroyed more than 2,000 structures in the historic town of Lahaina, making it one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history.
The City and County of Honolulu enacts new fire safety requirements for residential high-rise buildings, which were prompted by the Marco Polo condo fire in July 2017. [14] [15] August 22 – Hurricane Lane causes heavy rainfall and widespread flooding across the entire state, [16] [17] and contributed to a wildfire in Kauaula Valley on Maui ...
Starting on Oct. 30 and lasting for more than a week until Nov. 9, the Honolulu Fire Department did battle with a wildland blaze that started as a small reported brush fire.