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News Articles: Maui

Activist Kekai Keahi says Native Hawaiian trauma over losing land goes back generations to when the U.S. overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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Lahaina was expensive before the fire. Some worry rebuilding will price them out

Since the fire residents have gotten multiple calls from realtors offering to buy their land. Activists want a role in planning, to keep developers from pushing out those who call Lahaina home.

August 26, 2023
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
A poster seeking help finding a man not seen after the Lahaina fire is taped to a store window. The number of people reported as "not accounted for" has changed drastically this week.

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  • National

Maui officials release 388 names of people unaccounted for in Maui fire

The names were released after Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said the FBI was working to "un-duplicate" people who were reported missing.

August 26, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell and
  • Ravenna Koenig
The fire that devastated historic Lahaina in western Maui left a red-roofed house relatively unscathed. Its owner says he wants to open the house to the neighborhood to help the rebuilding process.

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  • National

'Miracle house' owner hopes it will serve as a base for rebuilding Lahaina

"There was a neighbor who sent a note to us and said, 'Oh, you won the lottery,'" Trip Millikin, whose house survived, told NPR. "And I almost wanted to throw up when I got that."

August 24, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Five-year-old cousins Layla and Mila Cabanilla Okano are among the many children staying with members of their extended family at one property on Maui in the wake of the wildfires.

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  • National

After the fires on Maui, one home shelters 87 people

Those displaced by the fires have found temporary quarters in hotels and with family and friends. One host opened their home to 87 evacuees, most of them from one extended family.

August 23, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Allen and
  • Deanne Fitzmaurice
Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen Jr. visits a distribution center at Lahaina Crossing. A deadly wildfire destroyed the city of Lahaina, Maui.

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  • Health

Massive mental health toll in Maui wildfires: 'They've lost everything'

Officials in Hawaii are scrambling to support the enormous and growing mental health needs of Maui residents traumatized by the deadliest wildfire in modern history

August 21, 2023
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By:
  • Eric Westervelt
Pastor Estrella Arquero leads Koinonia Pentecostal Church with her husband. There are at least 20 church members sleeping in the parish hall because they lost their homes in the fire.

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  • National

A Filipino congregation took in its own members after their Lahaina homes burned

The devastating fires on Maui burned more than 2,000 homes and buildings in Lahaina. Many churches have taken in their congregants because they have nowhere to go.

August 18, 2023
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By:
  • Jason DeRose
Uilani (left) and Keeamoku Kapu run the Na 'Aikane o Maui Cultural and Research Center which was burned to the ground in the wildfires so they set up this grassroots community distribution center in Lahaina. They are on the phone here taking a call from Oprah about supplies she will be delivering.

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  • National

Priceless connections to Hawaii's ancient past were lost when cultural center burned

As people grapple with more than 100 people who died in the Lahaina fire on Maui, they're still trying to understand the loss of priceless artifacts and their connections to the island's ancient past.

August 18, 2023
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
Niko Sena, right, hugs a friend who has been helping with the effort.

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  • National

On Maui, another fire is burning but capturing less attention than Lahaina

While the world focuses on the devastation in West Maui and the destruction of the historic community of Lahaina, another wildfire is still burning in the hills some 25 miles away in Kula.

August 18, 2023
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By:
  • Deanne Fitzmaurice and
  • Eric Westervelt
Carelle Calvan in blue T-shirt, hugs Nora Bulosan as they gather near a checkpoint in hopes to get access to their home destroyed in recent wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.

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  • National

Hawaii governor vows to block land grabs as fire-ravaged Maui rebuilds

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said he had instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina. He acknowledged the move will likely face legal challenges.

August 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Dr. Reza Danesh, the MODO Mobile Doctor, has been treating patients affected by the wildfires on Maui.

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After Maui's deadly fires, one doctor hits the road to help those in need

The death toll from Maui's fires has surpassed 100. Many more were injured. Others fled without their prescription drugs. Getting victims the care they need has been tough. One doctor is stepping up.

August 16, 2023
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By:
  • Jason DeRose
Volunteers stack boxes of pineapple that will be transferred to shore by a small boat on Aug. 14, 2023, in Kaanapali, Hawaii. Volunteers are continuing to bring much needed supplies to the West Maui area.

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  • National

The number of dead from Maui's fires rises as local residents press to see Lahaina

The death toll from the Maui wildfires rose again on Monday as officials warned that number would rise while also acknowledging public frustration from residents still barred from visiting Lahaina.

August 15, 2023
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By:
  • Ravenna Koenig
John Picard hands a watermelon to Ridge Lenny as part of the donated items he and other members of the local surfing community are helping transport to Lahaina residents in need.

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  • National

See how one volunteer group organized aid deliveries after fire decimates Lahaina

In Maui, NPR joined a tour boat operator to see the grassroots initiative the local surfing community and neighbors started to fill in gaps not currently being filled by official channels.

August 14, 2023
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By:
  • Deanne Fitzmaurice,
  • Jason DeRose,
  • and 2 more
Davilynn Severson and Hano Ganer look for belongings through the ashes of their family's home on Friday in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, in western Maui, Hawaii.

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  • National

Hawaii's governor orders review as Maui fires become deadliest in modern U.S. history

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said he has ordered a comprehensive review to understand the actions taken before, during and after last week's wildfires on Maui.

August 14, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
August 10: The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze making it the deadliest in the U.S. in recent years.

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  • National

Photos: 'Whole town went and dissolved into ashes,' Hawaii lieutenant governor says

In Maui, a fast-moving wildfire decimated the town of Lahaina. Historical losses includes one of the largest banyan trees in the U.S.

August 11, 2023
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By:
  • Ravenna Koenig and
  • Nicole Werbeck
AFTER: Lahaina, Maui - Banyan Court

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  • National

Satellite images show utter devastation from wildfires in Maui

Hundreds of homes, buildings and structures have been destroyed in the historic town of Lahaina.

August 10, 2023
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By:
  • Nicole Werbeck and
  • Alyson Hurt

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