While West Maui and fire-affected parts of Kula remain no place for visitors with teams still searching for remains from the Lahaina fire and the recovery in the early stages the rest of the island was unharmed by the fires but now is reeling from the abrupt loss of tourists that is causing people to lose their jobs and businesses to struggle.
The funds allow the Hawaiʻi Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide people with temporary jobs focused on cleaning up debris and repairing damage caused by the fires, and providing humanitarian assistance to the wildfire survivors.
Businesses all across Maui are taking a hit, and not just those destroyed by the fire. A lot of Maui businesses depend on tourist dollars. And their message is: Maui