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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR -- NEWS RELEASE -- GOV. GREEN, FEDERAL OFFICIALS PROVIDE UPDATES ON MAUI DAMAGE

Press Release

Date: Aug. 13, 2023
Location: Maui, HI
Issues: National Security Housing and Property

"We ask for a lot of understanding about traveling into the zone where the fire occurred. The reason is the health consequences, the heavy metals … the recommendations are to avoid the structures because they could still fall on people and we've lost too much life already.

I think what people are most interested in is housing, how we're going to house our people. We put together a Temporary Housing Task Force to work with our federal partners. We've already secured 1,000 rooms. Five hundred rooms will go to families that have been displaced because of the terrible fire, the other 500 rooms will go to support, initially …In the days that follow, we'll have long-term rentals, those are the short-term rentals-turned-long-term. All of that is going to be covered, some by the state, some it's going to be given charitably and finally, FEMA will cover a great deal of the cost."


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