When Kealoha was hired as an assistant professor by UH Manoa's Oceanography Department, her first day was Aug. 15—one week after the disastrous fire.

She learned that UH Manoa offers a degree in global environmental science. So she got one. “I had no intention of going past my bachelor’s,” Kealoha remembers.

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After picking up the woman and her rescuers, the fire helicopter brought them to Palolo Valley District Park at 6:20 p.m., where the uninjured woman was picked up by her husband, Kealoha said.