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The Hawaii National Guard, together with the U.S. 25th Infantry Division from Schofield Barracks on Oʻahu, deployed to Maui and Hawaii Island to assist with fire suppression support, search and rescue operations, and traffic control. Two UH-60 Blackhawk and one CH-47 Chinook helicopters were also deployed to support fire suppression efforts. [176]
A third fire raging in the inland mountainous region of Kula is yet to be contained. Dozens of residents were evacuated overnight from the area after brush fires were reported in the Olinda Rd ...
Firefighters on Oahu continue to battle a large wildfire above Mililani Mauka that was 85 % contained Sunday, and knocked downed five other brush fires and a building fire on a "red flag " weather ...
The Big Island of Hawaii is also battling wildfires, which have caused no fatalities. ... The largest fire in Lahaina is 85% contained and has burned 2,170 acres (880 hectares), Maui County said. ...
East Island is an island, formerly about 11 acres (45,000 m 2) in area, one-half mile (800 m) long and 400 feet (120 m) wide, now greatly reduced in size. [1] It was the second-largest in the French Frigate Shoals , and is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands , approximately 550 miles (890 km) northwest of Honolulu . [ 2 ]
The Koa’e Fault Zone or Koa’e Fault System (pronounced coe-wah-hee) is a series of fault scarps connecting the East and Southwest Rift Zones on Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The fault zone intersects the East Rift near the Pauahi Crater and extends nearly 12 km (7.5 mi) in an east-northeast direction towards the westernmost ...
This GOES-18 fire temperature composite satellite image taken 6:30 p.m. EDT. on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 and released by NOAA, shows hot land surface temperatures in red on the Hawaii Islands.
(Corrects last paragraph in Aug. 10 item to locate Maui north and west of the Big Island instead of east) By Jonathan Oatis (Reuters) -Wildfires on Hawaii's Maui island and Big Island have killed ...