Fall from cliff kills man, 23
A 23-year-old man died Sunday after falling about 80 feet onto a rocky beach in Pepeekeo.
Hawaii County fire rescue personnel responding to an 11:24 a.m. emergency call found the man with severe traumatic injuries and in full cardiac arrest, and tried to resuscitate him.
The man was transported by paramedics to Hilo Medical Center, where he died.
The incident happened at a shoreline access off Loa Road. The man reportedly fell while attempting to climb down a cliff to the beach.
Herbicide kills 5 pets on Kauai
A commonly used herbicide poisoned several pets last month in a small subdivision of Kalaheo on Kauai.
Four dogs and a cat died, possibly from ingesting paraquat, a highly toxic pesticide, the Garden Island newspaper reports.
State Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Janelle Saneishi confirmed the deaths of the animals belonging to four owners. One owner had two dogs killed, she said by email.
"We’ve never seen anything like this before that was of this magnitude," said Mana Brown, field services supervisor for the Kauai Humane Society.
As a restricted-use pesticide, paraquat can be purchased and used only by licensed applicators, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most likely route of exposure to paraquat that would lead to poisoning is ingestion, although poisoning is also possible following skin exposure, according to the CDC.
Saneishi said the poisonings occurred Jan. 25, with the last pet dying Jan. 31.
