#lahainafire — Public Fediverse posts
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Modern artist DAVO post ’23 Lahaina fire and his “Journey” to Now! 9-16-24 https://mauineutralzone.com/video/modern-artist-davo-post-23-lahaina-fire-and-his-journey-to-now/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Davo #ModernArt #PopArt #ArtJourney #LahainaFire
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#LahainaFire > Lahaina, Maui / Hawaii - 08/08/2023
Today, two years ago; ... A town burned to the ground, 102 lives lost. The Banyan tree is a symbol for the town's path to recovery.
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#LahainaFire > #Maui residents who lost their homes in the #wildfires are learning how to get part of almost a billion dollars in federal aid to rebuild. It’s part of $1.6 billion in post-disaster federal relief approved by Congress and former President Biden.
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The smoke from #Canada’s #wildfires may be even more #toxic than usual
A legacy of #mining means that #ToxicMetals could be carried along plumes of smoke.
by Matt Simon, June 5, 2025
"More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe.
"As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of year, trailing behind the brutal wildfire season of 2023. That year, the amount of #carbon blazed into the atmosphere was about three times the country’s #FossilFuel emissions. And the more carbon that’s emitted from wildfires — in Canada and elsewhere — the faster the #PlanetaryWarming, and the worse the fires.
" 'There’s obviously the #ClimateFeedback concern,' said Mike Waddington, an environmental scientist at McMaster University in Ontario who studies Canada’s forests. 'But increasingly we’re also concerned about the smoke.'
"That’s because there’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s #forests have long been #mined, operations that loaded #soils and #waterways with #ToxicMetals like #lead and #mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago. Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in #WildfireSmoke, which are known to exacerbate respiratory and cardiac problems.
" 'You have there the burning of these organic soils resulting in a lot of carbon and a lot of #ParticulateMatter,' said Waddington. 'Now you have this triple whammy, where you have the metals #remobilized in addition to that.'
"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists. But an area of particular concern is around the mining city of #FlinFlon, in #ManitobaCanada, which is known to have elevated levels of toxic metals in the landscape, said Colin McCarter, an environmental scientist who studies pollutants at Ontario’s #NipissingUniversity. Flin Flon’s 5,000 residents have been evacuated as a wildfire approaches, though so far no structures have been destroyed.
"But a fire doesn’t need to directly burn mining operations to mobilize toxicants. For example, in #Yellowknife, in Canada’s #NorthwestTerritories, #GoldMining operations between 1934 and 2004 spread #arsenic as far as 18 miles away, adding to a landscape with an already high concentration of naturally occurring arsenic. In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere. Arsenic is a known carcinogen associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and developmental problems, according to the World Health Organization. (After the 2023 #LahainaFire in Maui, officials reported elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic substances in ash samples. California officials also found lots of lead in smoke from 2018’s #CampFire.)"
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https://grist.org/climate/canada-wildfire-smoke-toxic-arsenic/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us#WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #AirIsLife #Mining #ToxicLegacy #FirstNations #Canada #Pollution #Worldwide #AQI #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #AirQualityIndex
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Hawaii News Now: Attorney for Lahaina fire survivors loses own home in Palisades fire
(note: site may be unusable without an ad blocker, based on my prior visits there).
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Systemic Drivers of Electric-Grid-Caused Catastrophic Wildfires - Implications for Resilience in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.3390/challe16010013 <-- shared paper
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#wildfire #electricgrid #ignitioncauses #wildfireprevention #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #risk #hazard #fire #wildfire #climatechange #Anthropocene #humanimpacts #infrastructure #massmovement #debrisflow #engineeringgeology #denudation #environment #ecosystems #ecology #loss #cost #economics #residential #waterquality #water #hydrology #electricty #energy #LahainaFire #CampFire #MarshallFire #SmokehouseCreek #fires #bushfire #vegetation #wind #weather #landuse #humanimpacts #utilitycompanies #utilities #resiliency -
More modular homes to be delivered to Lahaina for wildfire survivors
Posted on Feb 6, 2025
KAHULUI, Hawai‘i – The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation (HDOT) notifies highway users of potential traffic delays as modular homes for wildfire survivors are transported from Kahului to the state’s Ka Laʻi Ola housing site in Lahaina. (continued...)
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Grist: Maui’s post-wildfire housing crisis offers a warning for Los Angeles https://grist.org/wildfires/mauis-post-wildfire-housing-crisis-offers-a-warning-for-los-angeles/ #LahainaFire #PalisadesFire #EatonFire
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The Hollywood Reporter
A Lahaina Fire Survivor’s Step-by-Step Guide to Recovering From Tragedy and What to Do First
A former Billboard editor-in-chief (and THR music editor) and her family escaped the inferno that reduced her beloved Maui town to ashes. She offers actionable steps for those in the same position following the blazes raging across Los Angeles.
#wildfires #EatonFire #PalisadesFire #LahainaFire #firewx #disasters
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#LahainaFire #Maui #Hawaii #MauiFires
Authorities on Wednesday revealed the cause and origin of the #Lahaina #wildfire disaster that claimed the lives of 102 people, pointing to the reenergization of broken power lines that created sparks, igniting unmaintained vegetation in the area -
#Maui #wildfire - #Lahainafire
Lahaina Fire Incident Analysis Report Released by the Attorney General of Hawaiߵi
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From AP.com: Report finds 'no evidence' Hawaii officials prepared for wildfire that killed 102 despite warnings
https://www.aol.com/report-finds-no-evidence-hawaii-195133452.html
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#Maui #Hawaii #wildfires #MauiWildfires #LahainaFire
#Lahaina recovery process - With residential debris removal nearly 100% complete, Wahikuli and Māla neighborhoods in Lahaina open on Sept. 3
https://mauinow.com/2024/08/30/wahikuli-and-mala-neighborhoods-in-lahaina-open-on-sept-3/
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#LahainaFire > #Maui #wildfire clean up
More than 1,375 residential and commercial properties have been cleared of more than 300,000 tons of ash and debris in #Lahaina.
More than 17,000 truckloads of ash and debris have been taken from Lahaina to the Temporary Debris Storage Site in #Olowalu
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National Science Foundation News: [Lahaina] Maui Fire Recovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-qrJZTrWEA
#NSF #news #Hawaii #Maui #Lahaina #fire #LahainaFire #recovery #science #environnement #STEM
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From AP.com: Maui officials highlight steps toward rebuilding as 1-year mark of deadly wildfire approaches
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From AP.com: In Hawaii, coral is the foundation of life. What happened to it after the Lahaina wildfire?
https://www.aol.com/news/hawaii-coral-foundation-life-happened-060024997.html
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From CNN.com: Hawaii officials identify 70-year-old mother as the last of the 100 known victims of the Lahaina wildfire
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/hawaii-wildfire-last-victim-identification?cid=ios_app
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Gift article from Washington Post: Nearly 6,200 Lahaina wildfire survivors face the holidays with no home
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#Lahainafire #MauiFire > A story of hope and resilience
ESPN reached out to #Maui for a feature story on the collective efforts to restore #Lahaina’s Banyan tree.
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From BBC.com: Revealed: Mistakes that blocked Maui wildfire escape routes
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#Maui police released body camera footage from the three #wildfires that occurred on Maui in #Lahaina, #Kula and #Kīhei on Aug. 8, 2023.
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From WTOP.com: Maui County police find additional remains, raising Lahaina wildfire death toll to 99”
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From the Los Angeles Times: After the Maui fire, some Hawaiians rethink aloha spirit. Is it for tourists, family, everyone?
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From WTOP.com: 911 calls from deadly Lahaina wildfire show residents’ terror and panic in a desperate bid to escape NOTE: Emotionally Triggering for some individuals.
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#Hawaii #Maui #Wildfire #Wildfires #MauiFire #Mauifires
#LahainaFire #lahaina #LahainaFires
Updated / corrected numbers of deaths and missing peopleDeath toll: 97 (dropped from 115 after DNA tests)
Identified: 67Missing: 31
Missing person list >