Fire consumes vacant Honolulu home

A “vacant” 73-year-old house, sitting on a $2 million Kinau Street property and reportedly occupied by homeless people, went up in flames Tuesday.

The fire was fully involved when firefighters arrived at 1051 Kinau St. four minutes after the 4:12 p.m. alarm. The 2,016-square-foot, two-story house with finished basement, built in 1946, was set for demolition, a fire official said.

Neighbors expressed anger and frustration that the homeless had taken up occupancy, first on the porch, then enclosing the porch, punching out windows and using ladders to enter the upper floor and piling up rubbish in front of the house.