Two million bucks for the Maui Humane Society: catnip for all? LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii––A week after animal rescue teams led by the Maui Humane Society were at last allowed into the burn zone, where 115 people and untold numbers of animals died on August 8, 2023 in a wind-driven firestorm ignited by downed electrical wires, […]
Disaster authorities in Lahaina move to save banyan tree, but not animals
The banyan tree is alive––but so are the animals, if they get help now! KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii––Ten days and counting after the August 8, 2023 firestorm that razed Lahaina, efforts to save a banyan tree spreading over almost two acres have taken the mass media spotlight away from the human body count, stalled over the […]
Will a new Maui disaster chief allow animal rescuers to rescue in Lahaina?
A week after the firestorm, rescuers are still kept out during search for human remains while animals suffer hunger & thirst KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii––Animal rescuers trying to evacuate surviving cats and dogs from firestorm-devasted Lahaina hope the resignation of Maui emergency chief Herman Andaya late on August 17, 2023 will ease access to the still […]