kaulana anderson, a foreman for the hawaiian electric company, was on the ground trying to deal with the situation. >> our day started off, we had some poles that was falling over. so we had to come down here and try and secure them, because there was rocking in the wind. and as we got those poles secured, we got another call up by lahainaluna school that another pole came down. >> narrator: it ignited a brush fire along lahainaluna road. >> power line just went down. (siren wailing) hey, the power line is live, yeah? the power line? braddah! >> narrator: less than a mile away, at the hale mahaolu eono senior living community, sanford hill could smell the smoke. >> i went out and went into my backyard and looked up the street at lahainaluna, and i could see all the, the fire department was right on the other side of the bypass, fighting a fire that was smoking. it wasn't a big fire, maybe two acres. >> all right, we gotta do-- this one is coming down the mountain already. >> (on radio): all the homes cleared. >> when i came in that morning, it was like, super windy, and the power was