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It was the oldest hotel in Lahaina and on the island of Maui and the oldest in continuous operation in the state of Hawaii. It was a contributing building in the Lahaina Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, [3] and since 2016 was one of the Historic Hotels of America. [4] It joined Best Western in 1997.
By 5:45 p.m. HST (UTC 03:45), the fire had reached the shoreline, when the United States Coast Guard first learned of people jumping into the ocean at Lahaina to escape the fire. [32] Survivors later recalled getting trapped in a traffic jam and realizing they needed to go into the water when cars around them either caught fire or exploded.
Lahaina's two other Japanese Buddhist temples also burned down. Jarom Ayoso is eager to get back to the property where he and his wife rented a house for nearly 15 years.
The Lahaina fire that spread from the brush to town was still burning but 85% contained, the county said earlier. Two other wildfires on the island were 80% and 50% contained.
Lahaina, a town of 12,000 on the island of Maui, was decimated by a wildfire 8 August, prompting mass evacuations and power outages. Watch live: Lahaina residents queue to re-enter town burned ...
Waineʻe (moving water) served as the church for the Hawaiian royal family during the time when Lahaina was the Kingdom's capital, from the 1820 through the mid-1840s. Several members of the royal family who were initially buried near Halekamani and on Mokuʻula were reburied in 1884 in the cemetery (the first Christian cemetery in the state).
“Lahaina, with a few rare exceptions, has been burned down,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told The Associated Press. More than 1,000 structures were destroyed by fires that were still burning, he said.
Aug. 27—LAHAINA — Known outside Maui largely as a tourist attraction, visitor brochures obscure the fact that Lahaina for the most part is a working-class community with a sizeable immigrant ...