
LAHAINA, Hawaii — It's a sunny, breezy morning in Maui and 60-year-old Danilo Andres is standing in his house — a big open kitchen on the ground floor with a grill and a stove. Large pots hanging from the fence. "This is my big place, you know, all my family live here," he says.
Staring out from his second-floor deck, it's hard to fathom the randomness of the wind-fueled fire on Aug. 8. Everything around his home burned, to the right, on the front, on the left, and in the back, but somehow the fire jumped his homes and a surrounding cluster. "It's amazing," Andres says, still in disbelief.