A Palolo home sustained $100,000 in damage during a rockfall in which a boulder nearly hit a boy sitting on a toilet.

Three boulders – one about half the size of a car – fell down the mountain about 5:15 p.m. yesterday, fire Capt. Earle Kealoha said. No one was injured.

Two boulders crashed into a home at 2091A 10th Avenue.

Of the two, one crashed through a wall and stopped in a bedroom, Kealoha said. A second boulder crashed through the roof and just missed the boy, who is younger than 10, as he sat on the toilet. The boulder continued through the bathroom floor and stopped on a floor below. 

The largest boulder hit a shed and stopped before a neighboring home. 

Firefighters asked residents in five homes to evacuate for the night. Residents in two homes declined. Of the other nine residents, seven had somewhere to go. The American Red Cross was helping the other two, Kealoha said. 

Authorities were trying to determine who owned the land.  The state Civil Defense was helping the affected families with questions about the rockfall.

Kealoha said it was not immediately clear what caused the rocks to fall.