Lahaina Residents Approved To Return Home For First Time Since Deadly Wildfires

Residents will be escorted for the first two visits so officials can offer support and on the third visit, they can return on their own.

For the first time since the deadliest wildfires in over a century scorched the historic town of Lahaina, residents have been approved to return home.

Residents and business owners in some of the first zones to be cleared by the Environmental Protection Agency, will be allowed to go into the destruction area with escorts for the first time since August 8th.

Residents will be escorted for the first two visits so officials can offer support and on the third visit, they can return on their own.

Nearly 464 properties have been cleared by the EPA so far. Over 2,200 structures were damaged by the blazes and officials warned people that neighborhoods they once called home may be unrecognizable.