HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Siren sounds, but no emergency
Advertiser Staff
O'ahu Civil Defense Agency officials were trying to determine what caused an emergency siren on Maunalani Heights to sound twice yesterday.
The siren sounded at 12:35 p.m. Residents mindful of the recent earthquakes and nondestructive tsunami called 911 and Civil Defense to find out what was happening.
The siren sounded again at 1:10 p.m.
Officials said it appeared someone may have tampered with the siren's equipment.
Authorities received calls from people in East Honolulu, as well as from Waikiki and Kapahulu.
MAUI
OLIVINE POOLS VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
Police yesterday identified two people killed Friday at a scenic spot near Kahakuloa as newlyweds from San Jose, Calif.
Parag P. Khurjekar and his wife, Mamata D. Godbole, both 34, drowned in the ocean off Olivine Pools. The couple had come to Maui on their honeymoon, said Lt. John Jakubczak of the Maui Police Department. Khurjekar was posing for a photograph near the rocky edge of the pools when a wave knocked him into the water, Jakubczak said. It is not clear whether Godbole also was pulled into the ocean by a wave or jumped in to save her husband, he said.
Their bodies were recovered by a Maui Fire Department helicopter.
Olivine Pools is recommended in some travel guides as one of Maui's "hidden" spots, featuring natural pools on a lava bench protected from the ocean, but local authorities say it is dangerous. In April 2004, a 41-year-old California man and his 14-year-old daughter were swept into the ocean there. Only the daughter survived.
WAIKIKI
POLICE FIND MISSING GIRL, 13
A 13-year-old girl who had been missing since Friday was found at about 12:30 a.m. yesterday in Waikiki, police said.
Police found Meriah Flores, who had been last seen leaving the Ilikai Hotel at about 1:30 p.m. on Friday, by following a tip received Monday night.
Flores had told family members she was going to an ABC Store on Hobron Lane, but she never returned.
A CrimeStoppers missing- person report was issued Monday, and early yesterday morning, she was spotted in the 2500 block of Ala Wai Boulevard. She was visiting Hawai'i with her family from Indiana.
AIRPORT AREA
DEAD WOMAN'S IDENTITY SOUGHT
The Medical Examiner's Office will attempt to use dental records to determine the identity of a woman whose body was found Sunday in a marshy area off Nimitz Highway under the H-1 Freeway's Kalihi Interchange. Foul play was not suspected.
