HONOLULU (KHON2) -- A tragic morning in Oahu as two separate fires about an hour apart left one person dead, one person hospitalized and several homes damaged. The 911 calls on the fire at the home at 3566 Manoa Road came in at 4:25 this morning. Mānoa house fire claims life of one, crit ically injures another "I was sleeping and I hear a big noise. Boom," said next-door neighbor Jack Huang. "The shattering of glass is what we heard. It was super loud, It woke me up," said neighbor Rick Bergstrom, who lives across the street Residents told KHON2 that once they realized there was a fire, they didn't hesitate and ran across the street to pound on the door to wake the residents of the home on fire. They even went to warn the neighbor next door, fearing the the flames would spread. "So we came out and me and my boy went go up start pounding on the door and everything. Couldn't do nothing," said neighbor Romy Sabalboro. "I heard the window cracking, so then we stood back and then sure enough the window went crack and it all came down." Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You "It was a massive fire. It was a pretty wild fire. I was surprised at how quickly it went. I mean, it was within ten minutes it went from a small corner of the back house to burning through the front window," said Bergstrom. By the time firefighters arrived, the home was fully engulfed. Neighbors said the son and daughter of the original homeowners lived in the home. HFD said one person was taken to the hospital, the other died from their injuries. The next-door neighbor, Jack Huang, was saddened by the tragic news. "We talked about gardening, my fish, sometimes even my vegetables overgrown to their fence, and they never complained," said Huang. Honolulu Fire Department celebrates 117th graduating recruit class Just about an hour later, another fire broke out in Kalihi, this one tearing through three abandoned homes at 1128 Banyan Street. No one was inside, but flames came dangerously close to nearby houses and apartments. "It's the kind of stuff where I can look out my window, I can see you in your window and we can just talk from there," said Jun Butay, who lives next door. "There was a lot of embers coming down and obviously, once it started spreading to the other abandoned house, that's when HFD and HPD told us we gotta book it, we gotta evacuate." Four units at the Banyan Street Apartment complex were also damaged by the fire. Check out more news from around Hawaii Firefighters were able to contain the fire within 20 minutes. No one was injured. In both fires, investigators are working to determine a cause. ...read more read less