Many who lost homes and businesses in the Maui wildfires are living, hour by hour, unsure of what the future holds.
Dan Reardon stands near his car at Hanakao'o Park in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Tuesday. He has been living on the beach since the fires that devastated the town last week. In between, Peter Friedgen and Dan Reardon face whatever the day offers for two men cast away by the wildfire that wiped out the Lahaina pawnshop where they lived and worked. The sign at Hanakao’o Park says “no camping,” but nobody is hassling them.Their spot in the world now is a gray tarp on the sand held down by stones.
The food is being cooked by the staff at the Plantation House restaurant at the Kapalua golf course, which is the site of the first PGA golf tournament of the season. Five families, a club employee, two of her tenants, and two Pomeranians are now living in an event space under the restaurant.Jose Morales loads up meals Tuesday at Citizen Church in Maui for displaced residents and others unable to get food. “I don’t know who’s missing.
At Hanakao’o Park, Maui County lifeguards convene by the beach. Firefighters pass through, and there are people living out of cars. Reardon trades information with those who come by his tarp. He has learned that, since the fire, three people he knew may have taken their own lives. “I just got to where I couldn’t breathe,” Friedgen said. “I was choking. I almost passed out. That would have been it for me, but luckily my friend came along.”
Over the past week, people have stopped by several times to give the two men food and water. The park has bathrooms. But on Tuesday, Friedgen said he’d walked a mile up the coast and could not find any store that was open.
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