Ken Miranda, general manager of Kaonoulu Ranch, drove his water truck up from Makawao to help spray down grassland and contain the spread of the fire threatening homes along Haleakala Highway. The eucalyptus and waddle trees were most impacted, he said.
Miranda's wife Morag opened the Oskie Rice Rodeo arena and grounds for any livestock that was in the fire's path. She said horses, cattle, sheep and goats were housed. Horses from Ma'alaea were evacuated along with many Upcountry animals. In the aftermath of the fire, Kaonoulu Ranch has fed hundreds of firefighters, clean-up crews, and DNLR employees assisting in the upcountry recovery efforts.Aug.
Once the wind speed was below a safe threshold, videos shared by the crews above Kihei show National Guard Chinook helicopters hauling buckets and dropping thousands of gallons of water on advancing flames. The crews said these efforts, in conjunction with the firebreaks, eventually halted the fire's progress and that the timing was critical.
Miranda said that the fire breaks and interventions in the Pulehu fire were critical. "They really prevented Ohukai and Kihei from becoming another Lahaina," he said. "We got there and it was like an inferno. I mean, winds gusting 50 to 70 miles an hour, embers were flying over the neighbor's house, and it just exploded," Ka'uhane Lu'uwai said. "We were like, what's going on? It was like out of the movies."
Once they had wet down his mom's house, the ad-hoc fire brigade went through the neighborhood with the tanks, pumps and hoses in their trucks and hosed down buildings at Sandalwood Inn, which had already lost one structure.
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