house fires
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Search and Rescue (DSAR) Fire Division responded over the last five days to structure fires on Tutuila involving homes and businesses, and also to a brush fire from trash and debris on a steep hillside in Fagaalu that came very close to a house. Because...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a recent email to the director of Director of the Department of Search and Rescue (DSAR) Alefosio, Faipule Fagaima Larry Sanitoa requested reports on eight (8) fires that have occurred since August of last year in the territory.
Fagaima is the chairman of the House...

![After viewing the fire’s destruction inn Faleniu, a family member posted, “Seeing the aftermath of our house after the fire breaks my heart into pieces. I never imagined I would have to see the place we once called home turned into nothing but ashes and memories.” [Facebbook photo] Faleniu fire](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/faleniu_fire.jpg?itok=iuWYGFky)
