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“We don't want anybody to be by themselves on days like this. We want them to be with their neighbors, their friends, their family, with us," Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said.
“The trauma will always be there for sure … but the image that I have in my mind of that day, it’s hard to picture that when you see frames being put up and you see construction happening,” fire survivor Dustin Kaleiopu said.
Hawaiian Electric's efforts since the Aug. 8, 2023 wildfires on Maui are part of its $350 million, three-year Wildfire Safety Strategy that is projected to reduce fire risk by 68% to 72%.
"The public information, or lack thereof, causes tremendous angst and panic, and we wanted to ensure that we improve in that area," MEMA Administrator Amos Lonokailua-Hewett said.
Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said his department over the past two years also has invested in better training and equipment for officers and dispatchers.
The team lost for the first time in 14 games this season, to Valencia, Venezuela, in the world championship of the Intermediate (11-13) Baseball World Series.
The 2023 Maui wildfires "still weigh heavily on everybody in the department, and it was something that a lot of our firefighters faced that day that they hope to never have to see again,” Maui Fire Chief Brad Ventura said.
The Central East Maui Little League All-Stars came back from a 3-0 deficit to claim the national championship at the Intermediate 50/70 World Series in Livermore, Calif., with a 7-3 win over Greater New Orleans Little League on Saturday.
“Chief of War,” a project of Jason Momoa’s that has been 15 years in the making, is set during the wars to unify the Hawaiian islands in the last decades of the 18th century and told from the perspective of a real-life chief conflicted over the bloody campaign.
The mass evacuations, business closures and frequent warnings from government officials about Tuesday's tsunami warning reflect the serious approach to potential disasters two years after the deadly fires on Maui.
Gov. Josh Green said shortly after 6 p.m. that buoys off Midway Atoll indicated that the wave measured 6 feet from peak to trough, “so a 3-foot wave riding on top of the ocean.”
The team has won all 10 of its games this summer, at the state and West Region levels, to qualify for the 2025 Intermediate 50/70 World Series in Livermore, Calif., that began Sunday. Central East Maui received a bye and will open play today 1 p.m. HST in the event that runs through Aug. 3.
The federal funding will be available to help residents rebuild or afford a home for the first time in Lahaina or Kula, with . applications opening in August.
To make the return of the fair happen, Maui County is providing $1.5 million in funding — about double the cost of the event the last it was held in 2019.
Kaholi Krau, the first Mauian to attend the elite IMG Academy in Florida for more than one year, has returned home to play football and make up for lost time with his family.
The Central East Maui Little League All-Stars won the West Region championship at the Little League Intermediate 50/70 level in Nogales, Ariz., on Thursday. The win advances the Maui team to the Little League Intermediate 50/70 World Series in Livermore, Calif., Sunday through Aug. 3. The CEMLL ran up a 7-0 record in the tournament […]
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