After many lost everything they’ve had to the Lahaina wildfires, Marilyn Sameshima, owner of The Maui Quilt Shop, wanted to do something to help out her community.
On Saturday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy toured ravaged Lahaina a place he has visited several times while on family vacations and was moved by the “sheer devastation.”
Living expenditures have skyrocketed in areas of Maui impacted by the recent wildfires with grocery costs doubling, resident Eric David Poulsen told Sputnik.
Maui County filed a lawsuit Thursday against Hawaiian Electric for its role in the devastating Lahaina wildfires. The suit claimed the utility company was negligent by not turning off their electrical equipment despite extreme weather conditions.
Stationed with her family on the island Oahu in Hawaii, Karla Todd has witnessed what she says Hawaiian's naturally do, rally together to pick one another up.