Lahaina Home Stands Untouched Amid Wildfire Destruction in Maui
Among the devastation left behind by the Maui wildfires, a single Lahaina home stands untouched. Images display the house with the red roof on Front Street still standing in good condition, surrounded by remnants of…
Among the devastation left behind by the Maui wildfires, a single Lahaina home stands untouched.
Images display the house with the red roof on Front Street still standing in good condition, surrounded by remnants of what used to be a neighborhood, via the Honolulu Civil Beat. The image was also posted in X, formerly Twitter.
The home’s owner Trip Millikin said, “It looks like it was photoshopped in.”
Millikin was on a trip to Massachusetts with his wife when the fires broke out. He last heard from his nearest neighbor on Aug. 8 as the fires swept their community.
He noted that the wildfires sickened him as news of them spreading, but that a friend called him the next morning, and sent a picture of a helicopter flying over their house, which was unscathed.
“We started crying,” he said. “I felt guilty. We still feel guilty.”
Millikin described seeing wildfires ignite the homes of friends living in California in the past and witnessing the houses that somehow survive.
He recounted thinking, “Boy, I’m glad I don’t own that one. I wouldn’t want that. I would feel guilty.”
“That’s our house” now, Millikin noted.
He and his wife bought the 100-year-old home in 2021 to rehab it. He recalled the state of the structure, noting, “The house was an absolute nightmare, but you could see the bones of it.”