Disaster Dispatch: The Maui Wildfires with Nicole Huguenin

On today’s show we’re continuing our ongoing Disaster Dispatch series with a deep dive into the Maui wildfires. Earlier this month a series of wind-driven wildfires in Hawaii, predominantly in Maui, led to widespread devastation and destruction, killing at least 115 people and leaving 850 others missing in the town of Lāhainā. These numbers are estimated to actually be much higher as the search to find and identify victims remains painstakingly slow. 

To tell us more about what happened and what the community response has been, we’ve brought on Nicole Huguenin. Nicole is based in Maui and is the co-lead of Maui Rapid Response, an ahupua’a-based citizen disaster response team that’s part of a much broader community response ecosystem working all across the island to provide relief and mutual aid to residents of Maui. 

Resources:

• Maui Rapid Response
• Maui Rapd Response on Instagram
• Help Maui Rise Donation Google Doc
• ʻĀina Momona
• Kāko'o Haleakalā
• Tamara Paltin
• Mauna Medic Healers Hui
• Kanaeokana

Episode credits:

• Hosted, produced, and edited by Robert Raymond
• Presented by Tom Llewellyn
• Theme Music by Cultivate Beats

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