{"id":3263,"slug":"lahaina-fire-site-lahaina-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The fire is the '23 — the August 8 that's the day, the 102 that's the dead. The power lines are the cause — the 're-energization' that's the sparks, the 'morning phase' that's the missed. The 'Twilight Zone' is the description — the 'remains fall apart' that's the identification, the cars that were the trapped.","The banyan is the symbol — the charred that's the standing, the 'hope' that's the sign. The 'oldest' is the town — the 'capital' that's the Kamehameha, the '1819' that's the mission. The fire is the deadliest — the 'century' that's the US record, the 'Paradise' that's the surpassed.","The file keeps the Lahaina fire: the '23 August 8, the 102 dead, the power lines, and the banyan.","The Lahaina fire is the archive's Hawaii file — the deadliest wildfire."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Lahaina fire is the archive's Hawaii file — the town that burned.","A town keeps its tree — the file's suggestion being that the fire's hold is the loss: the '102' that's the dead, the 're-energization' that's the cause, and the 'banyan' that's the hope."]}],"name":"Lahaina fire site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","DISASTER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"August 8-9, 2023—the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century.","full_desc":"A site in Lahaina, Hawaii, Lahaina fire site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. August 8-9, 2023—the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century. HauntHunt files it with disasters, dark history and local folklore. The presences in its file go unnamed: the lahaina dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Lahaina","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.886048,"lon":-156.666195,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"HI2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3330,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The lore files them collectively as the Lahaina dead. Lahaina fire site in Lahaina, Hawaii carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Lahaina dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Lahaina fire","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3331,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The fire is documented history. Lahaina fire site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Lahaina fire","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The August 2023 fire is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Lahaina fire'. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"2023-08-09","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Lahaina fire","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. Lahaina fire site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Lahaina fire","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Lahaina dead","claimed_identity":"The Lahaina dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The lore files them collectively as the Lahaina dead. Lahaina fire site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The Lahaina dead. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Lahaina fire","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Lahaina fire","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}