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Surfers paddle out to honor Maui wildfire victims

Surfers and paddle boarders paddled out at Hanaka’o’o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on Aug. 8 on the one-year anniversary of the Maui wildfires that killed at least 102 people.

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Some 4,000 people attended a Paddle Out Thursday morning in the waters off Hanaka‘o‘o Beach Park to honor the 102 victims killed in the Maui fires a year ago.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires. A surfer is seen with a bouquet of flowers.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires. Pictured pointing from a jet ski is Archie Kalepa.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires. Pictured amid the paddlers is the voyaging canoe Hokule‘a.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires. Kaya Lulu, 11, scatters rose petals from the catamaran Sea Maui II.
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Thousands of people gathered to paddle out Thursday at Hanaka'o'o, or Canoe Beach, in Lahaina on the first anniversary of the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires.

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