NBC News (11/5, Bendix, Lozano) reports that “more than two months after a ferocious wildfire burned” a “West Maui community to the ground, killing at least 97 people…survivors say the trauma is as real now as the day it sent hundreds of people fleeing for their lives as flames chewed through their neighborhoods and thick, black smoke filled the skies.” Many residents “have trouble eating, sleeping or getting out of bed, and experience nightmares or flashbacks triggered by noises like the sound of a fire engine or a gust of strong wind. They describe a profound sadness, or heaviness – what Native Hawaiians call kaumaha.”
Related Links:
— “Maui wildfires lead to dire mental health crisis in Lahaina,”Alicia Victoria Lozano and Aria Bendix, NBC News, November 5, 2023