HCC §2-26
Payments for volunteers who help fight fires
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says that people who are not official volunteer firefighters but help at a fire and get hurt or die while doing so can be paid for their hospital, medical, and funeral costs. The payments are limited to what state law allows, and funeral costs cannot be more than $300. Only volunteers whose help is accepted by someone in charge qualify.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Volunteers not members of volunteer fire department
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) All persons not members of the volunteer fire department who volunteer their services at fires and whose services are accepted by authorized persons and whose injuries or death arise out of and in the performance of volunteer fire fighting shall be paid their reasonable hospital and medical expenses as authorized by section 386-171, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, and funeral expenses not to exceed $300. (b) “Authorized persons” as used in this section means such persons in the County fire department or volunteer fire department who are supervising or directing the fire- fighting operations. Article 7. Planning Department.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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