Mayor Blangiardi joined the Honolulu Fire Department in promoting fire safety at this year’s Fire Prevention Week Proclamation at HFD headquarters. "We cannot be more grateful than to have these people come to your aid and your rescue should the need arise,” he said of Honolulu fire fighters. This year’s theme, Charge into Fire Safety™: Lithium-Ion Batteries in Your Home, promotes safe purchasing, charging and disposal of these items. Chief Hao noted, “Fire safety and fire prevention begins long

After three full days of searching for a missing outrigger canoe paddler off of Lanikai, operations will conclude at sundown today. The Honolulu Fire Department led a coordinated search effort by land, air and sea, in partnership with the Honolulu Ocean Safety Department, the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG). Helicopters, drones, jet skis, motor boats and rescue divers were utilized to search a width swathe of area from Kaneohe Marine Corp

The Honolulu Fire Department is working to get a person out of a single-family home in Ewa Beach following a two-alarm fire. Firefighters were called to the home on Fort Weaver Road at around 6:35 p.m. and brought the blaze under control just before 7:30 p.m. The department did not confirm whether the person inside the home was still alive. Honolulu Emergency Medical Service said a 32-year-old woman was taken to a burn center in critical condition, and another woman in her 50s was hospitalized i