Press Release by Office of the Mayor County of Maui
Kaunakakai, Molokai – A change in wind conditions has caused the brush fire on Molokai to switch from a mauka direction to makai. In response, Maui Police ordered residents in the Kalamaula Mauka area to evacuate. Police officers conducted door-to-door notifications to the approximately 25 residents in the area. Red Cross will be operating an emergency shelter at the Mitchell Pauole Community Center in Kaunakakai for displaced residents.
The brush fire that was first reported at 12:05 pm yesterday afternoon has now burned an estimated 6,000 acres and is continuing to move mauka. Firefighters are currently concentrating on the eastern flank of the fire after earlier efforts by firefighters and helicopters to curtail the western section of the fire caused some tapering at the western flank. No other significant changes have occurred.
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