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Kitchen Fire Scorches Mililani Townhouse

Fire Officials Say Plumbing Work Could Have Ignited Fire

POSTED: 8:50 am HST August 11, 2008
UPDATED: 9:04 am HST August 11, 2008

A two-alarm fire gutted a townhouse in Mililani on Sunday afternoon.

The fire broke out at the townhouse on Kanamee Street near Kipapa Drive at about 2 p.m.

The blaze started in the kitchen and quickly made its way upstairs, a fire department spokesperson said.

"There were some renovations going on. We had a contractor, a plumbing constructor, doing dome soldering of copper wiring, and what we think what happened was it might have ignited some insulation materials behind the walls," Capt. Earle Kealoha said.

A neighboring unit suffered water damage.

No one was injured, fire officials said.

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