Hawaii wildfires: The red Lahaina house that survived Maui fires

Pictures person gone viral of a azygous red-roofed location that appears virtually unscathed arsenic the neighbourhood astir it has been reduced to piles of ash and rubble from the Maui fires.

The 100-year-old wood location connected Front Street is inactive lasting arsenic astir of the municipality of Lahaina has been destroyed.

Its owners person been near wondering what spared it.

From pictures, "it looks similar it was photoshopped in", proprietor Trip Millikin told Honolulu Civil Beat.

Mr Millikin was connected a travel to Massachusetts erstwhile helium heard quality of the fire, helium told US media.

He and his woman learnt that the full neighbourhood had been caught successful the blaze and would apt pain down. But the adjacent morning, aerial footage showed their location was intact.

"We started crying," helium told Honolulu Civil Beat. "I felt guilty. We inactive consciousness guilty."

Mr Millikin and his woman said they are unsure precisely what saved their home. Two years ago, the mates purchased the 100-year-old spot that utilized to beryllium a bookkeeper's location for employees of a sweetener plantation.

Mr Millikin and his woman said the location was successful disrepair, truthful they sought to reconstruct it. It whitethorn person been these renovations that saved the home, the brace told US media.

They switched retired the home's asphalt extortion for 1 with heavy-gauge metal, surrounded the location with stream stones and removed foliage astir it. But nary of these actions were meant to halt a blaze, they said.

"It's a 100% wood house, truthful it's not similar we fireproofed it oregon anything," Dora Atwater Millikin told the Los Angeles Times.

She said arsenic the fires blazed, ample pieces of wood would deed people's roofs. "If it was an asphalt roof, it would drawback connected fire. And otherwise, they would autumn disconnected the extortion and past ignite the foliage astir the house," she said.

She added that the home's region from its neighbours whitethorn person besides served arsenic a cushion.

The mates accidental they anticipation to instrumentality to Lahaina erstwhile it's safe, and erstwhile they do, they program to connection up their location for the galore who person mislaid theirs.

"Many radical person died," said Ms Atwater Millikin. "So galore radical person mislaid everything, and we request to look retired for each different and rebuild. Everybody needs to assistance rebuild."