Because the fire didn't happen near them they were miles away, where do some anons keep getting this idea that the entire island of Maui was ablaze? The fires were lit in the areas they wanted to clear out that had natives who have refused to sell for decades.
That is correct. It is the primary reason those areas were targeted. The best real estate in Lahaina is rarely ever for sale and had 100 year old plantation homes on them until recently. Any millionaire or billionaire that built a house in Maui in the last 40 years built it miles away where they could still buy a giant parcel.
Because the fire didn't happen near them they were miles away, where do some anons keep getting this idea that the entire island of Maui was ablaze? The fires were lit in the areas they wanted to clear out that had natives who have refused to sell for decades.
That is correct. It is the primary reason those areas were targeted. The best real estate in Lahaina is rarely ever for sale and had 100 year old plantation homes on them until recently. Any millionaire or billionaire that built a house in Maui in the last 40 years built it miles away where they could still buy a giant parcel.