Cause of Palolo blaze under investigation
Fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of an early morning fire that destroyed a three-bedroom Palolo house and displaced five people and a dog Friday.
Firefighters arriving at the home on the 1200 block of Palolo Avenue at 2:49 a.m. found the single-story structure fully engulfed in flames and smoke, said Capt. Dave Jenkins, a Honolulu Fire Department spokesman. Firefighters brought the fire under control at 3:10 a.m.
Although there were no smoke detectors, people living there woke up because of the heat generated by the flames, Jenkins said. They escaped without injuries.
Some neighboring homes sustained paint blistering from the fire, Jenkins said.
No damage estimate was immediately available.
Police briefly closed Palolo Avenue from Waialae to 6th avenues as firefighters extinguished the fire.
Man charged after drugs found in home
Hawaii County police arrested and charged a 24-year-old Hilo man with 18 drug offenses after he was found with large quantities of illegal steroids, police said.
Bail for Gregory Douglas Kama is set at $82,000 on 10 charges of promoting a harmful drug and eight counts of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Officers served a search warrant on a home on Paipai Street in Hilo and found 10 vials of testosterone cypionate, two vials of boldenone undecylenate, eight vials of testosterone, eight vials of drostanolone, 404 pills of oxandrolone, 192 pills of mesterolone, 95 pills of oxymetholone, four vials of nandrolone and 1,373 methandrostenolone pills, police said.
