Fire Department
Fire Department
Response appreciated
We live on Ahulani Street and saw black smoke.
After the call to 911, the fire engines got to Kona Coastview in about 25 to 30 minutes.
This is the first time there has been a fire in Kona Coastview since the new water system/fire hydrants were installed.
I would like to thank the Fire Department for such fast work. The firemen were extremely well organized and had it under control in about 10 to 15 minutes. They did an outstanding job saving all of the neighbor’s houses.
We are really looking forward to the new fire station to cut the travel time getting here.
Thanks again to all of our fire and rescue personnel on the scene. We really appreciate it.
Susan McGeachy
Kona Coastview
mahalo
Hospital care excellent
Many, many thanks to the physicians, nurses, aids, housekeeping, food preparers and the rest of the staff at Kona Community Hospital.
I was treated very well at Kona Community Hospital for 11 days in January. Pneumonia was the diagnosis. However, my digestive system had shut down and they couldn’t release me until it was working again. I guess I was very sick, but I didn’t know it because I was so well cared for by the staff. So many things to be thankful while there: for kind treatment of nursing staff, for decent food when I was able to eat, for proper medications, for wisdom of the doctors willing to answer questions, for nursing aids who cleaned up my messes, for many other visitors and prayers from community friends.
Diane Gaylord
Kailua-Kona
Tsunami trash
A different perspective
My friend moved from Sapporo to Sendai Christmas 2011 so he could take care of his elderly mother. On that day he and his wife had gone to work early. When he came home, his mother, her home and all the family heirlooms were gone—along with the rest of the neighborhood.
Family and family history are paramount in the Japanese culture.
Everything from his life and his family history was gone. If he could get back any tiny thing from his past, he would be so grateful.
The tsunami trash is coming, but mixed in the trash are the heirlooms of many Japanese families — in many cases it is all they have left of their past.
We need to understand that the things we find in the tsunami trash are family treasures and need to be returned. If you keep these things for yourself you are not a beachcomber — you are a grave robber.
We need a website where people can post their finds and people from our sister Japan can look for their family keepsakes.
We need to encourage our TV stations to set up such a website.
Annette LaBonte
Waikoloa