As divers continued to scan the nearshore waters for people who may have died while trying to escape the inferno, Maui officials announced a new leader for the Maui Emergency Management Agency.
The 19 members of the Maui Fire Department who lost their homes and worldly possessions while fighting the Aug. 8 firestorms are receiving temporary homes and help from California.
Two Lahaina residents who had fought for years to build a new fire station to protect their community watched as a deadly blaze consumed their homes this month.
Hawaii boasts having the “largest single integrated public safety outdoor siren warning system in the world" with at least 80 sirens on Maui, but officials did not resort to the alarms during raging brush fires.
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