‘You’re kind of raised to hate tourists’: Maui fires bring island tensions to a head

« What I’m afraid of is that if people keep seeing ‘Maui’s closed’, and ‘don’t come to Maui’, what little business is left is going to be gone, » said Daniel Kalahiki, who owns a food truck in Wailuku. Sales have already dropped by 50% since the fire, he said. « And then the island is going to lose everything. »