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COURTESY KAUAI FIRE DEPARTMENT
Fire damaged a home on Kauai this morning. A man and his grandson were able to escape the blaze without injury.
A family of three has been displaced after a fire damaged their Kilauea home on Kauai early today.
At about 4:58 a.m., firefighters responded to a fire at a single-story home on Titcomb Street and fully extinguished the blaze shortly after 6 a.m.
According to the Kauai Fire Department, the fire appeared to have originated from one of the bedrooms. A man and his 7-year-old grandson were able to escape without injury.
Damage to the home is estimated at $150,000 to the structure and its contents. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Volunteers of the American Red Cross are assisting the family.
Main thing with a house fire is that no puppies were endangered.
Curious how fire inspectors can explain the causes of house fires. Everything so burned up the evidence is destroyed. Are they like doctors who BS diagnoses and make up conclusions like power strip failure. Matches and cigarettes usually get burned to nothing and may not be causes unless the occupants are honest enough to tell the truth in the heat of the emergency. Accelerants can be used to prosecute murder cases even though it happens to be a BBQer stored with charcoal and briquet lighter fluid next to the front door and have nothing to do with the cause. Looking forward to hearing what the inspector says IF the SBA follows up on it and stops giving us mediocre information like those silly incomplete traffic accident reports.