‘Elele Street? Hey, that’s us!

A water-dropping helicopter helped contain a stubborn brushfire yesterday afternoon in Makakilo. Fire Department spokesman Capt. Earle Kealoha said the fire scorched an estimated 50 to 75 acres on a hillside near 'Elele Street. No lives or property were threatened.
This is the Honolulu Advertiser picture and caption from last Friday’s paper. We had a brushfire at the southern end of the street. There were lots of fire sirens heard throughout the day and a HFD helicopter ran pretty low through our neighborhood, but other than Robbie yelling out “Fire! Fire! Fire!” whenever he heard the sirens (a bit unnerving), there was nothing to worry about. Matter of fact, ace fire spotter that I am, I mistook rain clouds in the sky up the hill for smoke clouds. I thought the helicopter shown in the picture was dropping water on the northern end (up the hill), but it turns out that it was picking up water and then dumping it south. So had the fire gotten out of hand, I would have been standing on our back porch while the fire ravaged our front door.