A “Kōkua for Lahaina” benefit concert will be held at the Kīhei Charter School on Oct. 21 with a goal to raise at least $7,500 for the Maui Strong Fund.

The Maui Police Department on Monday identified one more victim of the Aug. 8 Lahaina fire: Michael Misaka, 61, of Lahaina.

The County of Maui is identifying fire-damaged or destroyed vehicles found on public roadways and other right-of-way areas following the August 2023 Maui wildfires. County officials say there were an estimated 1,000 vehicles that were in public right-of-way areas following the fires.

Lahainaluna High School faculty and staff welcomed approximately 700 students back to their home campus on Monday for the first time in more than two months since the Maui wildfires.

Maui small businesses hit by this summer’s wildfires are getting financial support to participate in this year’s Hawaiian Airlines Made in Maui County Festival, happening on Nov. 3 and 4, 2023 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are sampling West Maui reefs to assess the impact from the toxic ash from the Lahaina wildfire.

Preliminary, unvalidated data from ash sampling received late Friday night shows very high levels of arsenic, and elevated levels of lead and cobalt, in wildfire ash collected in Kula — and ash in the Lahaina burn zone is expected to have a similar profile, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health announced on Sunday.

Applications will begin to be accepted on Oct. 20 for a temporary financial assistance program that helps families with at least one dependent child who have been directly affected by the Maui fires.

Cook Solutions Group, a banking security company based in Portland, Ore., has teamed up with Quality Trailers to support Lahaina food truck owner, Dee Rodrigues, who lost her home and food trailer in the devastating wildfires on Aug. 8.

A coalition of Native Hawaiian Organizations has formed Hoʻōla Maui, which pledges to dedicate their technical expertise and organizational capacity to the clean-up effort of the August fires.

The Maui County Department of Water Supply on Friday removed Area UK-3 from the Unsafe Water Advisory for Upper Kula. 

On Oct. 13, Maui County lifted disaster area restrictions for property owners and residents who live in zones 5C, 9M and 16A and for maritime 17D and 6A (Māla Wharf) in the Lahaina burn zone.

The Maui Police Department says there is only one person’s remains left to be identified of the 98 remains found in the fire zone.

An emergency evacuation route has been completed in time for the reopening of three Lahaina schools: Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena Elementary, Lahaina Intermediate and Lahainaluna High.

The goal of this meeting is to collectively begin to create a path toward a fire and water resilient Upcountry community.

Maui County is lifting the Disaster Area Restrictions for owners and residents with vehicle passes in Zones 14 C and 14 D, beginning Oct. 16.

Māla Wharf’s ramp and facilities are reopening full-time for recreational vessel activity beginning at 6 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14, and commercial permittees are being informed by letter of commercial vessel operations opening on Monday, Oct. 16.

The organization, a partnership between The Nature Conservancy, Maui Nui Marine Resource Council and West Maui Ridge to Reef Initiative, has continued actively monitoring coastal water conditions in West Maui since the wildfire and was the first group to perform post-fire sampling in the area.

For customers whose water was used to help put out the Maui wildfires in August, a claim form can be submitted for reimbursement.

EPA tested for metals including lead and arsenic, asbestos, particulate matter, and 42 compounds called volatile organic compounds.