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Sep. 24—The Aug. 8 wildfire that tore through Lahaina destroyed more than a dozen cultural landmarks and historic structures. View an interactive display of before and after images featuring ...
Satellite images show before and after photos of historic Lahaina. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez donate $100m to Maui fire relief effort. Death toll rises to 80 in Maui wildfires.
After large flames raced through the island of Maui this week, much of Lahaina, the historic city on the west side of the island and home to over 12,000 residents, was destroyed, displacing ...
Lahaina, Lāhainā (Hawaiian: Lahaina, Hawaiian: [ləˈhɐjnə], / l ə ˈ h aɪ n ə /, old var. Lāhainā) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. On the northwest coast of the island of Maui , it encompasses Lahaina town and the Kaanapali and Kapalua beach resorts.
The LA wildfires across the state of California this week have taken the lives of 5 individuals and thousands displaced from their homes. These before and after pictures show the wildlife's ...
The banyan tree in Lahaina, when planted, was a sapling of 8 feet (2.4 m) height. Over the years it has grown to a height of over 60 feet (18 m) and spread into 16 major trunks, apart from the main trunk forming a large canopy of providing shade to the people from the blazing sun of Lahaina; it was intended as a part of a park.
That same year, the first whaling ships arrived, beginning the community's rise in economic importance. Lahaina eclipsed Oahu as a preferred whaling port between 1840 and 1855, because of its better deep-water anchorage. When Kamehameha III ascended to the Hawaiian throne in 1825, he made Lahaina his capital, preferring it to the busier ...
"Lahaina, with a few rare exceptions, has been burned down," Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Thursday after touring the devastation. "Without a doubt, it feels like a bomb was dropped on Lahaina ...