Tourist town on Maui destroyed by fire, characterized as outsider-owned businesses with inadequate evacuation routes and no authentic Hawaiian culture.
"Lahaina: It was all outsider industry, nothing really owned by natives. It's tour companies and expensive restaurants, all owned by the white man. The geographical layout is potentially disastrous, 10s of 1000s of people with only a one lane road out going either direction out of town. Like sardines"