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Salvage of air crash continues on Kauai

A salvage crew is set to retrieve the remaining wreckage today of a Bali Hai Helicopter Tours Jet Ranger that slammed into a Kauai mountainside last month, a National Transportation Safety Board official said.

Pacific Helicopters of Maui got most of the wreckage in a run last week but will try this morning to get some vital parts that were left behind, NTSB investigator Nicole Charnon said yesterday.

"We don't have any land skids or the tail rotor system," she said.

The accident, which killed the helicopter's four passengers and pilot, occurred Sept. 24 when the aircraft was finishing its circle-island flight. The crash site, at more than 3,000 feet in a nearly vertical slope, has made the wreckage recovery difficult.

Pieces of the craft have been taken to a hangar in Lihue.

Charnon said the chopper's engine will be sent to the manufacturer, where officials are expected to look for possible defects or other problems.

Killed in the accident were pilot Shankar Tummala, a former Indian military pilot who had recently moved to Kauai; Willy Braun, 59, and Heike Braun, 38, of Germany; and Tamara Zytkowski, 30, of Avon, Ohio, and her boyfriend, Thomas Huemmer, also of Avon.

City gets $400,000 for terror response

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded the city's Emergency Services Department $400,000 to help respond to new weapons of mass destruction.

The bulk of the funds, $250,000, will be used to prepare responses to such disasters as detonation of a dirty bomb. The remaining $150,000 will go for planning, training and purchasing equipment for health needs following a mass casualty incident.

The grant is part of $46 million in Metropolitan Medical Response System grants going to 114 jurisdictions throughout the country this fiscal year.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

LEEWARD OAHU
2 hospitalized after fight with bricks

Police are investigating a fight in Nanakuli early Saturday that sent two men to the hospital with head injuries.

The fight broke out about 12:50 a.m. at a home on the 87-100 block of Waiolu St., where three men -- ages 20, 23 and 44 -- were playing dominos in a garage.

Police said a truck of more than 10 men, described as the suspects' friends, drove up to the home and threatened to fight with the three men in the garage.

A fight broke out in front of the home between the victims and four suspects -- ages 16, 18, 19, and 23. Police said the suspects had not come in the truck with the other men.

The suspects allegedly used bricks to strike the victims on the head, police said.

When police arrived, one suspect fled. Three suspects arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment were released yesterday pending an investigation.

Police did not have details on the conditions of the victims, but said two were transported to Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center for head injuries.

Waianae brush fire scorches 20 acres

More than 40 firefighters helped yesterday to put out a Waianae brush fire that burned about 20 acres but threatened no homes.

Fire Department spokesman Kenison Tejada said the fire broke out at about 4 p.m. on Ala Akau Street. By about 5:30 p.m., firefighters were able to stop the blaze from spreading up a mountainside.

Tejada said no homes were evacuated, and smoke was blowing away from any nearby neighborhoods.

The cause of the fire, which mostly burned low brush, is under investigation.

WEST OAHU
Ex-boyfriend charged in court order case

Police have charged a 45-year-old man after he allegedly violated a restraining order to stay away from his ex-girlfriend.

The man was identified as Milton Hayno of no local address.

Police said the woman obtained the restraining order after Hayno assaulted her on Oct. 27 during an argument on Waipahu Street.

Police said the suspect violated the order at least three times during the last year.

He was arrested Friday for an unrelated robbery offense and charged Saturday for third-degree criminal property damage, abuse of a household member, third-degree assault and three counts of violating a protective order. He is being held on $6,000 bail.

Girls allege sex assault by teenage foster sister

A 16-year-old girl was charged during the weekend after allegedly sexually assaulting two of her foster sisters at Honokai Hale.

Police said the victims, ages 12 and 9, told their foster mother that the suspect sexually assaulted them about 8 p.m. on Sept. 15. The victims were taken to Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children for examination.

The 16-year-old girl was removed from the home and placed in a youth shelter.

She was later arrested and charged Saturday with two counts of first-degree sexual assault and three counts of third-degree sexual assault. She has been transferred to a detention home on Alder Street.

WAIKIKI
Girl reported missing is located unharmed

A 17-year-old girl who was reported missing on Friday was found unharmed in Waikiki late Saturday, police said.

Police said Pansy Li failed to show up to work at Kukui Plaza Friday morning. She had been last seen walking on Nuuanu Avenue near Beretania Street at about 7:45 a.m. Police said she was found unharmed. No other details were available.

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