'Lahaina is a loss,' said John Klossner. 'I don't know what's going to happen to the island now.'
We tour Lahaina to see what's left standing after Maui's fires.John Klossner, a former KTVU video editor who moved to Hawaii in 2017, is worried about the devastation caused by wildfires in Maui, specifically to the town of Lahaina, a tourist destination and the onetime capital of the former king.
It’s feared that the fire also consumed much of Lahaina’s historic Front Street, home to restaurants, bars, stores and what is believed to be the United States’ largest banyan, a fig tree with aerial roots that grow out of branches and eventually reach the soil and become new trunks. "Now that it's gone, I don't know what's going to happen here," Klossner said. "It's not just that a neighborhood is gone. The whole town is gone. And it happened so suddenly." Kiko and Steff Kirkman's nightmare came true. While visiting in the Bay Area, their home was destroyed in the Maui fires, and their pets died, too.It was a funky town, he recalled, with live music like Elton John and Linda Ronstadt.
An aerial image taken on August 10, 2023 shows destroyed homes and buildings on the waterfront burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii. Wildfire destruction in Lahaina, as seen during the governor's tour of the town on Thursday, August 10.
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