Hawaii Fire Fighters Association is with Tamara Paltin in Hawaii.

1 day ago

Our members showed up for Mayor Richard Bissen.

He walked the whole line, shook every hand, and took the time to talk story with our guys. Even had a keiki up on someone’s shoulders for the occasion.

And when the Maui Fire engine rolled by, the whole line lit up.

Mahalo to every HFFA member who came out to wave signs and represent Local 1463.

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Hawaii Fire Fighters Association

5 days ago

This one could have gone bad.

A fire at a homeless encampment, right up against a storage yard and the businesses next door. Maui Fire Department crews got hose lines in, worked it through the smoke along the fence line, and held it to that one patch.

Lucky the brush was still green. A dry month and a windy day, and this is a different story.

Blessed to have these crews. Engine 6 Waipuʻilani, Ladder 14, and every MFD member who worked this one: mahalo. An amazing job out there.

All hazards. All the time.
You Can Count On Us.

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Hawaii Fire Fighters Association is at Lanakai Pillbox Trail.

2 weeks ago

Five units. Fifteen firefighters. One hiker who could not walk out.

On Tuesday, September 1, a 911 call came in at about 2 p.m. for a hiker with an ankle injury on the Lanikai Pillbox Trail. Honolulu Fire Department crews went up the short, steep trail on foot. By 2:21 p.m. they had reached her, a visitor from out of state in her 20s, and completed a medical assessment.

Then they carried her down. No helicopter. A Stokes litter, which is a rescue stretcher on a single wheel, and a crew walking it down the same steep trail they had just climbed.

Care was transferred to Honolulu EMS at about 3 p.m.

About 21 minutes from the call to her side. About an hour from the call to the ambulance. That is what years of training look like on the day they get used.

To the HFD members who worked this one: mahalo. She came a long way to hike that ridge. You got her off it.

You Can Count On Us.

Full story from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Trail photo: Raita Futo, CC BY 2.0
Engine photo: Nesnad, CC BY 3.0

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