The Latest Breaking News from Maui

An evacuated resident described disaster as ‘an apocalypse’

Maui residents who made desperate escapes from flames, some on foot, asked why Hawaii’s famous emergency warning system didn’t alert them as fires raced toward their homes, in interviews at evacuation centers Thursday

Maui mayor says historic town of Lahaina has been totally wiped out by wildfires: ‘It’s all gone’

A dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane ignited the deadliest U.S. wildfire since the 2018 Camp Fire in California, which killed at least 85 people.

Fleetwood Mac leader devastated as hurricane-fuelled wildfires ravage Hawaiian island of Maui

Wildfires destroyed the Hawaiian tourist town of Lahaina on Aug. 8 and 9, 2023, leaving many of its roughly 13,000 residents homeless. Fires also burned in other areas on Maui, Hawaii’s second-largest island, and its Big Island. President Joe Biden issued a disaster declaration on Aug. 10, which authorizes federal…

In Maui, a fast-moving wildfire decimated the town of Lahaina. Historical losses includes one of the largest banyan trees in the U.S.

A Las Vegas-based video journalist for The Associated Press dispatched to cover devastating wind-fueled wildfires in Hawaii says the scene over Maui was one of the worst he’s seen in more than eight years of covering the disasters

Unprecedented wildfires raged through Hawaii’s Maui island, also claiming tree described as the largest banyan in the US