April 21, 2026

Maui fire survivors are con­fronting huge mental health hurdles, many while still living in shelters

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KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) — The evacuation center at the South Maui Community Park Gymnasium is now Anne Landon’s safe space. She has a cot and access to food, water, showers, books and even puzzles that bring people together to pass the evening hours.


What You Need To Know

    • Mental health experts are working to help people who survived the deadliest fire in the U.S. in more than a century make sense of what they endured
    • While many are still in a state of shock, others are starting to feel overcome with anxiety and post-traumatic stress that experts say could be long-lasting
    • In a natural disaster, people often leave their medication behind during sudden evacuations
  • What they witnessed as they fled will remain with them a long time — trauma that comes with no easy fix, something impossible to simply get over

But all it took was a strong wind gust for her to be immediately transported back to the terrifying moment a deadly fire overtook her senior apartment complex in Lahaina last week.

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