Officials and volunteers say addressing mental health needs and trauma will likely take years.
A group of volunteers with Maui Medic Healers Hui gather before heading out to help people affected by the fires in Lahaina.
Ka'imikila Moraes, an EMT with family ties to Lahaina, has been staffing the site as a volunteer with the grassroots group."Some people are recovering from burns and so they need their dressings changed," he says,"Others inhaled a lot of smoke either during the fire, or in the immediate aftermath when they went to look for people and belongings, so we do a lot of nebulizer treatments over here, as well.
"Talk story is what happens at the grocery store, when you go to pick up something fast and you notice the clerk is talking story with the customer for awhile," says Teri Holter, a social worker and therapist in Maui, and a volunteer with the medic group.Noelani Ahia , an indigenous activist with deep family roots in Lahaina and a co-founder of Maui Medic Healers Hui, talks with volunteers at one of their locations in Lahaina.
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