Tragically, an inferno has started on another Hawaiian island.
The Honolulu Fire Department has battled a “wildland fire” in Wahiawa on the island of Oahu.
According to KHON2, the fire is “near the area of the historical Kukaniloko Birth Site.”
The Kukaniloko Birthstones are a sacred location in Hawaiian culture, similar to Lahaina.
From Hawaii Magazine:
Kūkaniloko and other birthstones like it in Hawaiʻi are more than ritual locations. They provide a real and direct connection between life before birth and people alive today in Hawaiʻi to those in the afterlife. Considered a piko (navel) of the island, Kūkaniloko sits in full view of the Waiʻanae mountain range, which, as seen from the site, resembles the reclining profile of a wāhine hāpai (pregnant woman). For the child born here, Kūkaniloko and its surrounding lands would be a school, where he or she learned leadership and continued the sacred ways of their ancestors…
