'It's far from over': the pain continues for civilian families of the Red Hill crisis

TL;DR - Norine Tuck lived in Kapilina Beach Homes in ʻEwa when the Red Hill crisis began 18 months ago.

As a civilian, she didn’t know her home was hooked up to water lines affected by the jet fuel contamination in November 2021, when some of the military's fuel supply seeped into publicly consumed water.

"They were assuring us that we weren't on Navy lines and that everything was fine," Tuck said. "(They said), 'Go ahead, you know, you can use the water, but out of an abundance of caution you might not want to.' And that went on for weeks."

Since then, Tuck has suffered from severe migraines and her daughter is hypersensitive to water.

May 22, 2023: 'It's far from over': the pain continues for civilian families of the Red Hill crisis, Hawaiʻi Public Radio