Honolulu authorities examine arsons at three Waikiki accommodations

Honolulu police stated Wednesday surveillance video recorded photographs of the identical man at three completely different high-rise accommodations close to Waikiki Seashore the place fires had been deliberately set in current days.

Two rooms had been burglarized whereas visitors had been evacuated from one of many accommodations, the 25-story Waikiki Beachcomber by Outrigger.

Surveillance video on the lodge confirmed a person carrying at the least two backpacks much like those taken within the housebreaking.

The hearth, which broke out close to a storage room on the 14th flooring, brought about $1.eight million in injury.

Police are asking for the general public’s assist in figuring out the person. Photographs confirmed him carrying a baseball hat, mustache and goatee.

Nobody was injured within the fires.

Every fireplace started at evening in a hallway on a flooring with visitor rooms, stated Honolulu Hearth Division Captain Scot Seguirant.

Firefighters have referred the case to police for investigation.

Police would not say if extra officers had been being despatched to patrol the favored vacationer space. An Related Press request to interview Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard was declined.

The primary fireplace brought about $4,000 in injury Sunday on the Alohilani Resort.

The third fireplace broke out on the 28th flooring of the 38-story Hilton Hawaiian Grand Waikikian on Tuesday.

Resort safety put out the flames with a fireplace extinguisher after it brought about $10,000 in injury, police stated.

Matt Kim of San Francisco, who’s visiting the islands together with his household, stated he noticed the street to the Grand Waikikian was closed Tuesday however had no concept there had been a case of arson.

“That is fairly scary, particularly safety clever,” stated Kim, who’s staying on the sprawling Hilton complicated in Waikiki.

He stated he want to see extra foot patrols across the space however would not plan to alter accommodations except officers suggest he accomplish that.

Hilton spokesman Nigel Glennie stated the resort would not publicly disclose safety measures as a matter of coverage. However he stated the lodge has reviewed the incident and can make any acceptable modifications.

Marc and Mariam Walkowski of Grand Rapids, Michigan, had been sitting exterior the Alohilani lodge on Wednesday, however did not know there had been a case of arson there three days earlier.

The couple, who’s staying on the 16th flooring of a close-by Courtyard Marriott, had walked by the Waikiki Beachcomber by Outrigger on Monday.

“The streets had been fairly flooded with vacationers and folks from the lodge,” Marc Walkowski stated. “It appeared that they evacuated almost all people.”

Folks had been taking photographs and video and had been calm, he stated.

“There’s quite a lot of accommodations on this space so I am not involved that ours can be a goal, however you by no means know,” he stated. “We weren’t conscious that it was arson, we assumed it was an accident.”

His spouse stated they do not plan to do something in another way due to the fires. They will watch out and never dwell an excessive amount of on the detrimental.

“Clearly it is Hawaii and we’re having fun with that,” she stated.