A wildfire burned for several hours Monday, Jan. 6, 2024, just south of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, before the Honolulu Fire Department doused the flames. (U.S. Army)

A road south of Schofield Barracks in central Oahu was closed for several hours Monday afternoon as firefighters responded to a wildfire, U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii said in a Facebook post Monday.

Kunia Road was closed in both directions between Lyman Gate at Schofield and Kunia Drive about a half-mile south of the base.

The garrison’s emergency alert advised drivers to use alternative routes and avoid the area.

Firefighters from the Honolulu Fire Department contained the fire at about 4 p.m., and the road was reopened shortly after, Hawaii News Now reported Monday.

Brush fires are commonplace on Oahu.

In August, the Honolulu Fire Department was battling three separate wildfires in the grassy highlands of Oahu.

Several thousand acres of grassland have burned in recent years on and near the Army’s 132,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island.

A series of wildfires on Maui in early August 2023 turned deadly as high winds swept flames through the town of Lahaina, decimating it and killing 102 people.