Apartment fire’s starting point is found
The three-alarm fire in an Ewa apartment complex Friday afternoon originated in Building U, unit 3, Fire Department spokesman David Jenkins said.
The cause remains under investigation and may take a week or two, Jenkins said.
Damage to the two affected structures, Buildings T and U, was estimated at $498,000 and $150,000 to their contents.
Fire spread to six of the units. Electricity was cut to both buildings, displacing 22 people — four of them children — from eight units. (A ninth unit was unoccupied.)
The fire broke out just before 1:24 a.m., and a total of 11 fire companies responded.
A 26-year-old man was injured while breaking glass in an attempt to get people out of the burning building.
A pit bull that lived at one of the units received burns and scrapes but managed to escape from the patio it was kept in. The family’s other dog, a Chihuahua, was killed in the fire. The dog was found dead inside the apartment. The family was not at home at the time of the blaze.
Moiliili home allegedly hit by armed robber
Police are investigating an armed robbery that allegedly occurred in Moiliili on Friday morning.
The victim, a 39-year-old woman, told police that she let the suspect into her residence. The suspect then took her wallet, threatened her with a handgun and fled, according to a police report.
No description of the male suspect was made available.
Man accused of terroristic threatening
A 57-year-old Pearl City man was arrested early Friday morning after he allegedly threatened another man with an aluminum club.
According to police, the suspect came out of his Hoolaulea Street residence without provocation and made "intimidating comments" to the 48-year-old male victim.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening.
Waipahu forgery suspect is arrested
Police arrested a 43-year-old Waipahu man after he allegedly tried to cash a forged check at a Waipahu business on Friday afternoon.
The check belonged to a 70-year-old woman.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of second-degree forgery.
