Dec 27, 2020
As of 12:40 p.m., contraflow has begun on Pulehu Road while the Maui County Fire Department respond to a brush fire at Kula Agriculture Park, according to the Maui Police Department Facebook page.
The Fire Department said they were notified at 9:48 a.m. of a fire incident and Pulehu Road was closed by 10:35 a.m. in both directions from Holopuni down to just north Kulakula due to a brush fire that has grown to 7 acres in size. Residents are asked to avoid the park area and Pulehu Road as much as possible.
Fire control is ongoing.
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Fire crews patrol Olowalu Village Road which was lined with charred trees and burned grass Sunday afternoon from a brush fire that covered about 760 acres. The Maui News / DAKOTA GROSSMAN photos
OLOWALU An Olowalu brush fire that charred around 760 acres, caused home evacuations, destroyed a church and caused road closures over the weekend is just about burned out.
By late afternoon Sunday, the brush fire in West Maui was considered 95 percent contained as ground crews continued monitoring and securing the fire perimeter while air support made water drops on inaccessible areas, according to the Maui County Fire Department.
The Maui News
WAILUKU A 2nd Circuit Court judge on Monday dismissed a case against a 91-year-old Kula man who was charged in connection with a fatal crash in 2016 that killed a 30-year-old woman.
Judge Richard Bissen granted a motion by defense attorney Myles Breiner to dismiss the case against James Shishido, who had been driving a 1998 Ford Explorer that hit Destiny Delima of Paia around 8 p.m. on Nov. 25, 2016. Delima had been walking in the area of Pulehu Road in Kahului.
Doctors had found Shishido mentally unfit for court proceedings because of dementia. Bissen granted the defense’s motion to dismiss the case because of Shishido’s illness.