As many as one-third of people displaced by the August 2023 Maui fires wound up in the homes of friends and family in the weeks after the disaster.
The Lahaina home Tamara Akiona shared with 10 people was never quiet, and she loved it that way. Akiona, her husband, uncle, stepdaughter, and her best friend’s family filled the house once owned by her grandparents, which featured four bedrooms, two living rooms and a spacious backyard. She remembers the happy anticipation of hearing the front door open and not knowing who'd come home. Someone was always in the kitchen cooking.
It provided a cushion when Tamara’s work managing a vacation rental slowed and Kawehi, 50, took on a second job valeting cars at a hotel only to fall and break his knee. Having their own stability made it possible for the Akionas to help Tamara's uncle Ron Sambrano too. Sambrano, 60, watched the neighborhood burn that August night. For months after, he would pull his hat over his eyes whenever he had to ride through Lahaina.
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