LEEWARD FIRE SEASON: Flames towered over Honolulu firefighters yesterday after they set a backfire to save the Kaena Point Satellite Tracking Station in this Associated Press photo. The fire started near Farrington Highway about 11:20 p.m. Wednesday and burned more than 1,000 acres.
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