All posts tagged "Hawaii"

A Hawaiian congressional candidate was charged with "terroristic threatening in the first degree" after holding county workers at gunpoint, according to reports.

Democrat Kirill Basin brandished a gun during an argument inside a Maui County government building on Friday, the Honolulu Civil Beat reported.

Although police weren't called for an hour and a half, Basin was arrested by the Maui Police Department and charged with Terroristic Threatening in the First Degree, according to the Honolulu Civil Beat's reporting....

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One year after deadly wildfires upended life on Maui, several thousand people gathered across the island Thursday to grieve the lives that were lost, reflect on all they’ve endured and affirm their resolve to keep their communities intact as the difficult work to rebuild continues.

At Hanakao’o Park in West Maui, chants of “Lahaina strong!” echoed across the water as hundreds of those residents paddled out on surfboards just offshore from the beach park. They cheered and splashed as crews aboard the Hawaiian voyaging canoes Hokule’a and Mo’okiha O Pi’ilani looked on in support.

Thousands of flower petals rained down on the paddlers from a helicopter overhead....

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With the trailer on a barge en route to Hawaii, two business partners plan to set up a makeshift home on the now-cleared property.

For three weeks, heaping piles of gravel sat untouched on the dirt lot where Mario Siatris’ house once stood.

The gravel, a form of erosion control, needed to be spread out over the dirt, the final step in an intricate process overseen by the federal government to clear fire-ravaged Lahaina properties of hazards and toxic waste. ...

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The Attorney General's much-anticipated report provides new insight into the fire response but does not address the cause of the fire.

As fires spread in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 8, Maui firefighters reported troubling news to their commander. At 4:25 p.m., the advancing fire was engulfing homes and businesses near the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Ulupono Street and nearby Kahoma Stream was unlikely to stop the flames....

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KIHEI, Hawaii — Ron Proctor donned the red suit for the first time in 1996.

He was a waiter at a Napa Valley restaurant in need of a fair weather Santa for an employee Christmas party. No one else on staff could be coaxed to plop the children of chefs and food runners onto his lap. But Proctor figured what the heck....

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The power was already out in West Maui at 5 a.m. on Aug. 8 and it could have stayed that way had Hawaiian Electric decided not to re-energize its lines.

Instead, the company rebooted a tripped transmission line so that it could provide electricity to some of its customers in Lahaina despite an ongoing windstorm and repeated warnings of extreme fire danger....