One person is dead after a house fire in Hilo Saturday morning.
It happened at about 9:35 a.m. Saturday morning at a home on Alenaio Lane.
One witness says she heard a loud sound around 9:40 a.m.
"I could hear two loud noises. I thought my neighbors dropped something and then my mom heard from my neighbor there was a fire. So I ran outside to see, and then there's this big cloud of smoke," said nearby resident Cayla Esposo.
Fire officials saying the fire started behind a two-story plantation home near Kinoole Street. When they arrived, the area was fully involved.
"[I was] coming out of BJ Penn's and I hadn't gone about three feet before everybody was looking, stopping their cars and what I did was I looked to the right down the street, and there was the fire," said witness Mike Burke.