Fire/rescue crews answered an 11:34 a.m. alarm Sunday (Oct 26) for two lost hikers on the Captain’s Drive/Ala Kapena Drive trail in the Volcano area. Ground crews and Chopper One were dispatched for the search.
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Posted on 6:22 pm, Sunday, October 26, 2014.
Fire/rescue crews answered an 11:34 a.m. alarm Sunday (Oct 26) for two lost hikers on the Captain’s Drive/Ala Kapena Drive trail in the Volcano area. Ground crews and Chopper One were dispatched for the search.
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Posted on 8:02 pm, Sunday, June 8, 2014.
Fire/rescue crews spent another day searching for a 56-year-old fisherman last seen about 9 p.m. Friday (June 6) before falling into the ocean near MacKenzie State Park. Sources say the man either fell or was swept into the water by a wave fronting the Malama Flats area.
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Posted on 11:47 pm, Thursday, February 27, 2014.
Fire/rescue crews responded to an 11:25 a.m. alarm for a lost hiker in the Piha Forest Reserve near Laupahoeehoe Thursday (Feb 27). Crews searched for the lost 20-year-old male hiker lost in the Piha forest reserve. Rescuers were able to use GPS coordinates triangulated from the man’s cellphone position. The hiker was spotted by Chopper […]
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Posted on 9:52 am, Sunday, June 23, 2013.
Rescue crews located a pair of lost hikers Friday (June 21) at the Pu‘u Maka‘ala National Area Reserve in the Volcano at about the 5,000 foot elevation. The overdue hikers were supposed to have exited the forest on Thursday but wandered off the trail and could not find their way out before nightfall and spent […]
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Posted on 9:25 pm, Thursday, January 17, 2013.
Hawaii County Fire Department crews suspended the search for a fisherman who fell into the ocean at South Point Sunday night (Jan 13). A rescue boat, Chopper One and ground crews reportedly found nothing of the fisherman Thursday (Jan 17). Earlier in the week a Coast Guard plane, cutter and helicopter along with a National […]
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Posted on 6:32 pm, Monday, September 17, 2012.
A 48 year-old man and 33 year-old woman became lost during a hike in the Olaa Forest Reserve while searching for Maile plants Monday afternoon (Sept 17).
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Posted on 2:11 am, Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
A 28 year-old man and 32 year-old woman were hiking out of the Kahaualea Natural Area Reserve when they wandered off the main trail and ended up lost .6 miles Southeast of the trail. Unable to find their way back out of the forest the pair were able to call the fire department via a […]
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Posted on 9:52 pm, Tuesday, December 28, 2010.
Hawaii County’s Chopper One airlifted two lost female hikers out of the rainforest of the Kahaualea Natural Area Reserve in Volcano, Hawaii Tuesday afternoon (Dec 28). The two women, aged 20 and 31 years-old, had hiked through the rainforest into a clearing near Pu‘u O‘o vent. Upon returning the pair got disoriented and were unable […]
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Posted on 12:51 am, Monday, November 1, 2010.
MEDIA RELEASE Fire/rescue crews responded to a 7:16 p.m. alarm for an overdue hiker on Mauna Loa. The 43 year-old man was lost on Mauna Loa due to darkness on rough open lava terrain. The man was contacted via cellphone and located by rescue personnel two miles above Mauna Loa Observatory. The man did not […]
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Posted on 11:44 pm, Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Fire/rescue crews spent Sunday searching for three males lost off the Captain’s Drive trail near the Fern Forest area of Volcano. The hikers called for help via cellphones after they got lost amongst the numerous trails in the area and were unable to find their way back to their rental car parked at the trailhead […]
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