Lahaina students find resilience in temporary classrooms after wildfire
Two years after the Lahaina wildfire destroyed King Kamehameha III Elementary, teachers are helping students heal.
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Two years after the Lahaina wildfire destroyed King Kamehameha III Elementary, teachers are helping students heal.
The massive inferno in the historic town of Lahaina was the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century.
Last year's horrific wildfires turned Lahaina into a disaster zone, and destroyed the Fleetwood Mac founder's club, Fleetwood's on Front Street. Today, Mick Fleetwood is determined to rebuild, saying, "There has to be music."
The wildfire on Maui last year erupted from an earlier brushfire caused by downed power lines that firefighters believed they had extinguished, officials said Wednesday.
While crews have cleared most of the structures that were leveled after the Maui wildfires last August, a construction shortage and difficulty getting permits have slowed the recovery process.
A CBS News analysis of satellite imagery one year after the devastating Lahaina wildfire shows signs of recovery, but widespread damage remains.
A lawsuit says if emergency responders had known about widespread cellphone outages during the deadly Maui wildfires, they would've used other methods to warn about the disaster.
Local officials in Hawaii plan to open an office that will speed up Maui County's notoriously slow processing of building permits to help the town of Lahaina to recover from last year's deadly wildfire.
The final victim of the Hawaii wildfires has been identified as 70-year-old Lahaina resident Lydia Coloma.
Maui's economy relies on tourism, but some residents say that they haven't recovered enough from August's deadly wildfires.
The heart of Lahaina, the historic town scorched by the blaze, reopened to residents and business owners holding day passes, but much work is left to clear properties of burned debris and rebuild.
Each year, 15,000 native Hawaiians leave the state for the mainland, which now boasts a larger Hawaiian population than Hawaii itself.
The 16-minute compilation shows Maui police officers working against time, knocking on doors and urging Lahaina residents to leave their homes.
The deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, whipped by powerful winds from a passing hurricane, killed at least 98 people and leveled more than 2,000 structures.
Some local residents are being shuffled from one temporary location to another two months after wildfires devastated West Maui.
A small group of Lahaina residents were allowed to return to what's left of their homes on Monday, seven weeks after devastating Maui wildfires.
West Maui includes the historic town of Lahaina, which was devastated by the Maui wildfires.
He did not immediately elaborate on why the death toll had been projected by Maui County officials at 115 for several weeks.
They'll have escorts and will be given protective gear. "We don't want to traumatize or hurt anyone more than they've been hurt to date," one official says.
The revised number of people missing was a startling drop from the list released last week in which 385 people were still listed as missing.
The updated total was a startling departure from what had been expected. A day earlier Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said he believed the number would drop "into the double digits."
If Maui wildfire survivors lost their necessary medication, "it would be another disaster," said Dr. Cory Lehano. "We have the ability to take care of these people ... so let's do it."
The fund kicks off with an initial contribution of $10 million from Winfrey and Johnson.
Maui's mayor told CBS News he couldn't say who was "responsible for communicating" with the state's head of emergency management.
Three weeks after the fires broke out, the count of the dead stands at 115. But an unknown number of people are still missing.