Papakea resort fire

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A state of emergency has been declared for the whole island, while all nonessential travel to the popular vacation destination is being discouraged, officials said. The images show much of the historic town of Lahaina reduced to rumble, including on Front Street, where tourists shopped and dined just days ago. Smoking heaps of rubble lay piled high next to the waterfront in the town, which dates to the s and is the biggest community on the island's west side. Homes and shops were stripped to their frames or less, boats in the harbor were scorched, and smoke hovered over the leafless skeletons of charred trees. Take a look at the latest stories and videos about wildfires in Hawaii.

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Four months after the deadliest US wildfire in modern history, thousands of people have yet to find stable housing. After the move, Nahale turned his pickup truck into a storage unit — part closet and part pantry — filled with boxes of clothes and nonperishable food. He brought only toiletries and essentials into the hotel suite. When he was hungry, he went to the truck to grab a can of tuna. A ukulele, a guitar and a set of work clothes were the only possession he was able to save from the fire. More than 10, survivors lost their homes, and, four months later, 6, remain sheltered at 33 hotels contracted with the Red Cross and Fema. For the thousands of evacuees who have been shuffling around, the haphazard way in which the program is managed, along with the return of tourists to the fire-ravaged region in October, have carried dire social consequences: residents share concerns of rising suicide rates, and monthly calls to the county domestic violence hotline have more than doubled since the disaster. F or the first two months after the fire, Kanani Lukela stayed at a two-bedroom unit at the Sands of Kahana Resort, north of Lahaina, with five family members and two emotional support dogs. But on 17 October, just over a week after west Maui reopened to tourism, the resort informed Lukela that her family would be relocated the next day to a different hotel 40 minutes away, that had no kitchen for her to cook in for her teenage children. The shock and stress of being displaced yet again pushed her to the brink of a breakdown, she said.

Papakea resort fire

Maui's Lahaina went from a historic resort town to 'war zone' after America's deadliest wildfire for a century. Once a lush green resort town on an island in the middle of the Pacific, Lahaina has now been reduced to ash and rubble. At least 96 people have died since the fast-moving blaze engulfed the north-west coast of the Hawaiian island of Maui on Tuesday, levelling the historic town and obliterating nearly everything in its path.

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WAILUKU, Hawaii -- Heartbreaking images are starting to emerge of the devastation left behind by wind-whipped wildfires that have destroyed more than structures and left at least 55 people dead in Maui. A state of emergency has been declared for the whole island, while all nonessential travel to the popular vacation destination is being discouraged, officials said.

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