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Sharlene Rabang died with her daughter holding her hand nearly a month later. She had a history of cancer, COVID and high blood pressure, and the doctor initially neglected to attribute her death to the wildfire. It wasn t until November that, at the urging of her family, Honolulu s medical examiner said a contributing cause of death was the thick, black smoke that Rabang breathed as she fled.