Maui’s fires continue to rage with a report of six dead and landmark areas reduced to ash. Maxar satelllite images compare photos of the same neighborhood on June 25 and the burnt remains of the same area on August 9.
The island’s famous banyan tree, one of the largest in the U.S., sent from India in 1873 reveals no vegetation on the tree when compared to earlier images.
The Lahaina Heritage Museum, has been reported to have burned so badly that the roof has collapsed and only its walls remain.
The Baldwin Home Museum, built in the 1830s is listed as the oldest home on the island has burned.
The Wo Hing Temple Museum has also been destroyed. The two-story structure was built in 1912 to be a temple and social hall for the island’s Chinese immigrant community.
