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"Fire destroyed the landmark Suisan warehouse off Kamehameha Ave. in HIlo overnight, according to television news reports and the Hawaii Tribune Herald.
Hawaii County Police closed Kamehameha Ave. near the warehouse for at least two hours as firefighters battled the flames at 11 p.m. Thursday.
Photos show the warehouse engulfed by flames.
Suisan, a major Big Island fish and food and product distribution company, was founded in 1907 by Japanese immigrants, according to its website.
The warehouse, at the mouth of the Wailoa River, had been rebuilt twice after the 1946 and 1960 tsunamis. "
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Yikes.... That's gonna severely impact the availability of fresh fish on the island!
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Probably ore than just fresh fish, as they are a major frozen/refrigerated food warehouse & delivery for the island...
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This will really impact restaurants too.
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Probably not.....their main warehouse operations is on the road toward Keaukaha.
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Most of the damage was to their offices, the warehouse is in relatively good shape, with little inventory loss. They are doing admistration work out of Kona. I work in the kitchen at Kalani, and we spoke to one of their reps this morning.
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FYI: (*Snipped - More at link)
Glenn Hashimoto, president of the Suisan Group, issued a statement today saying the company’s food distribution operations will continue despite the overnight fire.
Although there might be some delays, no significant interruption of service is expected, said Hashimoto.
“While this building is an important part of Suisan, and housed its business and management offices, the company’s fleet of 33 trucks was not affected,” he said.
“Other parts of the Hilo operation and all of the Kona operation are operational.”
The company has 175 employees on the Big Island.
Hashimoto took over the reins of the company from longtime executive Rex Matsuno in January. Matsuno remains as chairman of the Suisan board.
Hashimoto said he wanted to thank the Suisan ohana for its “quick pulling together to keep operations and deliveries moving.”
“No one was injured, so we are thankful,” he said. “We are resilient and will work things out.
http://bigislandnow.com/2014/05/16/suisa...-continue/
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Most of their operations are over on Kona side. They also say on their website they don't make individual deliveries to restaurants, only special requests.
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If they don't make individual deliveries to restaurants, why are their trucks at the same restaurants, every day?
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I don't see where the Suisan website says that they "don't make individual deliveries to restaurants." Perhaps I'm missing something?
http://www.suisan.com/services/
I miss the fast food place they used to have (1990's) there, I think the name was "Reina's," or something like that. They opened early, like 04:30, and that's where I'd get my breakfast when I worked construction. Lots of food for a fair price. Better than Ken's, and back then Ken's was the only other place open at such early hours.
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