Jowel and Relyn Delfin have taken 13 relatives into their central Maui home.
As Hawaii begins to tally the damage and assess how to improve its safety procedures to address extreme fire weather, California can offer many lessons.“For me, the missing are in the ocean or cremated,” Jowel said, as others wondered aloud whether more of the lost would ever be found.
Rochelle’s husband, Jomar, looked ahead, not quite at his brother-in-law, just staring into space, toward where a promotional calendar from Maui Toyota hung on the wall.Relyn had printed the words “fire Lahaina” in neat black ink on the square for Tuesday, Aug. 8 — the dividing line that had cleaved all their lives wide open.
Rochelle and Ime and Beverly were sprawled on the cracked leather couch by the time the 10 o’clock news came on TV.
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