#Fire risks

Fire hazards meet housing crisis as Maui County clears out another homeless encampment

Advocates for houseless people say sweeps are not the long-term solution, with some residents kicked out of Maui Lani on Wednesday the same people who were booted out of Amala Place in Kahului during a previous sweep three months earlier.

Where open land meets development, Maui residents urged to view risks like a firefighter

Residents can do the kind of prep work firefighters would to make their homes defensible, and they can do it long before the threat of fire arrives.