When there's enough rain, the mountain-framed expanse of vacant land behind Calvin Endo's house looks like the lush and verdant landscape that makes tropical Hawaii famous. But in the summer, when the jungle of eyeball-high invasive grasses and spindly tree branches fade to brown, he fears it could become a fiery hellscape.
This isn't Maui, where most of Lahaina burned down during a massive wildfire in August 2023. Endo’s duplex is in Waianae on the west side of Oahu.
