Officials have not determined if the early-morning fires that occurred within minutes of each other are related. 

Firefighters were dispatched at 3:28 a.m. to Rainbow Market at 1720 Palolo Ave., where they found a van on fire.

Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Terry Seelig said the driver of the van apparently tried to break into the Palolo market by driving through its glass front doors. Metal stanchions in front of the swinging doors stopped the vehicle.

The van was then set on fire, Seelig said, and is considered a total loss. A second van in the parking lot also was set on fire.

It took firefighters 21 minutes to get the two fires under control.

The fires caused $60,000 damage, $20,000 to each of the vans and $20,000 to the exterior of the building, Seelig said. The fires did not cause any damage to the interior of the store. No one was injured.

Firefighters also were called Friday to extinguish a car fire at 3:34 a.m. on Kaipuu Street near Kapiolani Boulevard.

Arson investigators from both the police and fire departments are also looking into that incident, which destroyed the Honda sedan. Seelig estimated damage to the car at $5,000.

Seelig said the fire was intentionally set.

Kaipuu Street is a dead-end road and the apartment buildings on the street are under renovation, he said