Three Nanakuli Elementary School students were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor eye irritations Tuesday morning after a chemical odor was reported in one of the school’s classrooms.
The students — two 10-year-old boys and an 11-year-old girl — were all in stable condition after the city’s Emergency Medical Services responded to a call at the school at about 11:15 a.m.
A Department of Education spokeswoman said the classroom building was evacuated as a safety precaution. The Honolulu Fire Department’s hazardous materials team responded, tested the air quality inside classrooms and around the building, and found no evidence of health hazards or any environmental causes.
No other buildings were affected, and a letter was sent home with students to notify parents.
Victim of fall ID’d as Ewa Beach man
A 50-year-old man who fell off the roof of an apartment building in Waikiki on Sunday died later that day.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office identified him as Darin Tajiri of Ewa Beach, who died of head injuries due to blunt force trauma. The manner of death was classified as an accident.
Tajiri fell at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday at a building located at 421 Seaside Ave. Emergency Medical Services and the Honolulu Fire Department said Tajiri fell 20 feet to the ground from the second-story roof.
Paramedics took him in critical condition to a hospital, where he died.
Pair spends night on trail before rescue
Maui firefighters rescued two hikers who got lost on the Commando Trail over the weekend.
At approximately 8:30 p.m. Sunday, firefighters met one of the three hikers, a 26-year-old Maryland man and former Maui resident, at the trailhead on Hana Highway.
He said he and two friends, a Maryland man and a Georgia woman, both 28, started their hike at about 1 p.m. that day. They had planned to leave the area by dusk, but a rapidly rising stream trapped them in the area, according to a news release from the Maui Fire Department.
The hikers got lost below an area referred as the “Lava Tube.” None of the hikers could call 911 because there was no cellphone coverage.
The 26-year-old man managed to hike out on his own and call for help, said the Fire Department.
Firefighters suspended their search for the two hikers until dawn. Meanwhile the man slept in his car overnight in case his friends found their way back to the trailhead.
On Monday morning crews aboard the department’s Air 1 helicopter spotted the hikers and airlifted them out of the area.
No injuries were reported.
