ABC News(KAHANA, Hawaii) Along the shores of Kahana, a community five miles north of Lahaina, on the island of Maui, residents have been hauling coolers and boxes off boats up to a makeshift distribution center.
"We all made our calls to the family" for help, one resident told ABC News, and the boats swiftly answered those calls, streaming in from around Maui as well as the neighboring islands of Oahu and Molokai.
"Everything is from the community," another resident chimes in. "Not from the government."
Save for those hauling goods into the beds of waiting, lined-up pickup trucks, residents are shaded from the heat by tents as they organize the necessities: gas, diapers, water, fish, and more food.
The wide web of resident-led distribution centers extends from beach landings like this one to supermarket parking lots, to neighborhood front lawns across the cut-off portion of Lahaina that s above the burn area.
They ve been without power or cell phone
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ABC News(KAHANA, Hawaii) Along the shores of Kahana, a community five miles north of Lahaina, on the island of Maui, residents have been hauling coolers and boxes off boats up to a makeshift distribution center.
"We all made our calls to the family" for help, one resident told ABC News, and the boats swiftly answered those calls, streaming in from around Maui as well as the neighboring islands of Oahu and Molokai.
"Everything is from the community," another resident chimes in. "Not from the government."
Save for those hauling goods into the beds of waiting, lined-up pickup trucks, residents are shaded from the heat by tents as they organize the necessities: gas, diapers, water, fish, and more food.
The wide web of resident-led distribution centers extends from beach landings like this one to supermarket parking lots, to neighborhood front lawns across the cut-off portion of Lahaina that s above the burn area.
They ve been without power or cell phone