What remains after the flames: scenes from the ash-colored streets of Maui
. At least 2,200 structures burned to the ground. Some people survived by fleeing into the sea.
What awaited news photographers—including David Butow, on assignment for TIME—was the human effort to navigate the brutal topography of climate change. “The particular skills of the local culture came into play immediately,” he writes from Maui. “Rescuers and relief supplies were ferried in a range of craft, from large tourist boats, to jet skis and traditional Hawaiian canoes.”
“The island,” Butow says, “is like a collection of small towns tied together,” and, at a church service where locals gathered to sing and support one another, one group “even made use of techniques developed to cure and store food in jars designed to last months on seafaring journeys.” Spencer Kim helps clear debris at the ruins of a house belonging to a friend in the small hillside town of Kula on Aug. 12.At the first Sunday service since the deadly fires last week, parishioners of the Kupaianaha church pray for healing after the tragedy, in Wailuku on Aug. 13.A woman, who asked not to be named, hoses down a still-hot part of the property of a friend whose house burned down in Kula on Aug. 12.Parishioners of the Kupaianaha church pray during a service on Aug. 13.
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