The Veterans of Foreign Wars is looking for veterans who were personally affected by the August fires on Maui. “If you or someone you know was directly impacted, the phone lines are open,” the VFW said in a media release Friday. Read more
The FBI's Honolulu Division is helping collect DNA samples from family members to assist MPD's efforts to identify victims of the Lahaina wildfire. Immediate family members — parents, siblings and children — of those still missing may go to the Hyatt Regency Kaanapali daily between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. to provide DNA samples.
The Maui Police Department is asking that missing person reports be made at unaccounted@mpd.net
Those on other islands or the mainland should call the FBI at 808-566-4300 or email HN-COMMAND-POST@ic.fbi.gov and provide contact information so that further instructions can be provided.
Maui County officials are warning of scams related to the collection of DNA samples. Family Assistance Center staff do not call members of the public to request DNA samples, and no fees are charged for the service. Anyone receiving calls from someone claiming to be with "DNA Services" or other parties should hang up immediately and report the scam to the Maui Police Department's nonemergency number at 808-244-6400.
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Maui Mayor Richard Bissen cautioned a crowd of more than 600 during a community meeting Friday night at the Lahaina Civic Center that it would be a “fair estimate” of 18 months to two years before those who lost homes in the deadly Aug. 8 wildfire could begin to rebuild. Read more
Dozens of Lahaina residents and property owners Friday were denied passes to be the first to enter the burn zone Monday because they did not live along Kaniau Road, known as Zone 1-C. Read more
The area in Wahikuli designated Zone 1C, which runs along Kaniau Road, will be open for escorted visits from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. After that, entry will be restricted to local traffic only. Read more
The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Labor has approved moving the DUA application filing deadline to Oct. 26 instead of Monday. Read more
Soon after one of Maui’s Japanese Buddhist temples, the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, burned in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, its resident minister was desperate to go back and see what remained. Read more
Maui police Chief John Pelletier has said only those people who have a formal missing persons report filed with MPD will be included on the list of unaccounted for. Read more
The team is made up of 25 public health service officers from the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Read more
Something feels strange about urging tourists to return to Maui, so soon after Lahaina burned to the ground. Read more
Thirty-six street addresses are included in the first residential zone to reopen to property owners and residents who will be able to see for themselves the destruction left behind by the deadly Aug. 8 Lahaina wildfire. Read more
The University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization says the Aug. 8 wildfires will lead to sharp, persistent economic losses on Maui, with limited spillovers for the rest of the state’s economy. Read more
Green said he was astounded by how many survivors asked that Lahaina be reopened up for tourism. Read more
The PGA sent a memo to players today that it will be back at Kapalua for the Jan. 4-7 opener. Read more
“There will be lots of opportunity for people to see if they find a lost ring, a picture, or some other keepsake,” Gov. Josh Green said today during a press conference. Read more
Maui County plans to let some survivors back into the devastated historic Lahaina fire area Monday and Tuesday, but evacuees have mixed feelings about what they’ll see and how they’ll feel. Read more
The Maui Police Department on Wednesday added Lahaina resident Kirk Carter, who died Aug. 15 at Straub Medical Center’s Burn Unit in Honolulu, to its official list of fatalities from the Aug. 8 Lahaina wildfire. Read more
Maui County late Wednesday announced reentry procedures for Lahaina residents to access properties in the restricted disaster zone that have been off-limits in the aftermath of the Aug. 8 firestorm, which killed at least 97 people and destroyed more than 2,200 properties. Read more
The first official entries into Lahaina follow demands from residents that continue more than a month after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century. Read more
Lahaina resident Kirk Carter, who died Aug. 15 at Straub Medical Center’s Burn Unit in Honolulu, has been added to the official list of fatalities from the Aug. 8 Lahaina wildfire. Read more
Maui County has not released an official account of how firefighters, police, the Maui Emergency Management Agency and other county departments responded to the Aug. 8 wildfires in Lahaina, Kula and Olinda. Read more
Deputy Director Kaleo Manuel, who served as the commission’s executive director, received overwhelming support from a standing-room-only crowd that spilled out of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources boardroom in Honolulu. Read more
Occupancy at Maui County hotels dropped to 52.2% in August, which saw tourism plummet in the wake of deadly wildfires that destroyed Lahaina town, according to the Hawai‘i Hotel Performance Report published Tuesday by the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Read more
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