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Investigators suspect Maui brush fire intentionally set – Hawaii News Now

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Russ Roberts

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Investigators suspect Maui brush fire intentionally set
Hawaii News Now
Fire investigators have determined that a wildfire that consumed more than 65 acres of brush in Kaupo over the weekend was likely to have been intentionally set.

Russell Roberts‘s insight:

This is not good news for fire crews. Hawaii County has its share of "firebugs", too. Aloha, Russ.

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