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"By communicating with him, he was able to guide us," Fire Capt. Aaron Young said. "It took about an hour. If he didn't have a cellular, we'd probably be out looking for him today."
The man left home at 9 a.m. and reached the Waimano Trail summit around noon, Young said. He then hiked back down into the valley and got lost.
Exhausted, he called the Fire Department for help.
Police said Eddie Dela Cruz, 48, and Hisao Munechika, 70, both of Waimea, left the Kikiaola small-boat harbor in a 17-foot fishing boat at about 6 p.m. yesterday. Dela Cruz called his wife on a cellular phone at 8:25 p.m. to say the boat was sinking and they were going to swim the mile back to shore.
She called 911; and firefighters, police, the Coast Guard and local fishermen launched a search. They found the men at 9:20 p.m. and brought them to shore. Police said neither man was injured.
Heavy equipment used will include a crane, forklift and portable generator, the Department of Wastewater Management said.
No one was hurt in the fire, and damage was estimated to be $180,000 worth to the structure and nothing to the contents of the empty two-story house.
The property was awarded to the federal government in a civil forfeiture case on Feb. 12, 1996.
It was the first federal real-property forfeiture for gambling offenses in Hawaii. In returning the verdict against Godfrey Soon Bong Kang, a jury ruled his Hihimanu Street property was used for gambling with five or more people.
The boy, a McKinley High School student, was treated for burns and cuts at Kuakini Hospital and released.
The explosion was reported at 9:30 a.m. and occurred on the 2600 block of Wailani Road.
One man, 29, was booked for second-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.
The second suspect, 26, was arrested for second-degree robbery and first-degree burglary.
The pair allegedly forced their way into the Kinau Street residence of the older man's former girlfriend looking for items that were stolen recently from his recording studio, police said.
Police are also investigating alleged threats made by the two men against another man yesterday over the break-in at the recording studio.
A Coast Guard rigid-hull inflatable boat, Maui Fire Department personnel and two vessels -- the Kaulana and Navatech 2 -- responded after Capt. Brian Fowlands of the Maui-based Aerial reported the fire at 5:32 p.m.
No injuries were reported.
The four Kona men -- ages 43, 47, 49 and 70 -- were arrested for cruelty to animals and gambling.