Firefighters quickly extinguished a small brush fire Wednesday morning near mile marker 17 on Mamalahoa Highway in North Kona. Firefighters quickly extinguished a small brush fire Wednesday morning near mile marker 17 on Mamalahoa Highway in North Kona. The Hawaii
Firefighters quickly extinguished a small brush fire Wednesday morning near mile marker 17 on Mamalahoa Highway in North Kona.
The Hawaii County Fire Department firefighters responding to the 6:27 a.m. report, arrived to find a small brush fire on the mauka side of the highway, also known as Highway 190, being fanned by mauka-to-makai winds, said Special Operations Battalion Chief Gerald Kosaki. The firefighters were able to hold the blaze to 900 square feet.
The fire was declared extinguished at 7:30 a.m., he said.
