Kihei Fire News Today

An estimated four acres of brush burned in an afternoon fire along the Maui Veterans Highway west of the Maui Raceway Park between Kahului and Kīhei on Tuesday.

An estimated four acres of brush burned in an afternoon fire along the Maui Veterans Highway west of the Maui Raceway Park between Kahului and Kīhei on Tuesday.

A fire reported in Kīhei near the Wailea Inn is now contained and crews are currently conducting mop up operations. Residents who left the Wailea Inn and Iliili Apartments during a precautionary evacuation are welcome to remain at the Kīhei Community Center as MFD extinguishes all hot spots.

LAHAINA, Hawaii – Classrooms on Maui will have empty seats as students begin returning to school nearly two weeks after deadly brush fires broke out, consuming entire communities on the Hawaiian island.

Classrooms on Maui will have empty seats as students begin returning to school nearly two weeks after deadly brush fires broke out, consuming entire communities on the Hawaiian island.

The Central Pacific Bank Foundation is donating $50,000 to the Hawaiʻi Red Cross to help victims of the devastating fires on Maui.

Maui Fire Department crews responded to 20 emergency calls for fires over the Fourth of July holiday. The majority of these fires were small brush fires and rubbish bin fires which could be quickly extinguished, according to department reports; however, there were two brush fires that required response from multiple units.

Fire crews are conducting mop-up operations today at the site of a 300 acre brush fire in South Maui. The fire was first reported at 5:18 p.m. on Sunday off of the Maui Veterans Highway between the Maui Raceway Park and the North Kīhei Rd. intersection.