It's

deadliest wildfires devastated the island community of Maui.

While much of the debris has been removed,

many residents are still dealing with worrisome health issues

that experts say are connected to the fires.

William Bringham has this report.

It's part of our series, Race Matters.

All that area.

It was a nightmare. While some greenery is returning to the valley behind

Nancy Garrett's home in Kula Maui, she will never forget when this was all ablaze. It burned right up here to my hedge. It was a wall of

fire. I mean telling me what. The fires in this rural inland area started the same day as those that consume the town of Lahaina, 25 miles to the west.

A hundred and one people died there, and over 2,000 homes and other buildings were lost.

While most of Lahaina's Inferno

was contained within days, the rough terrain here in Kula

made it harder for firefighters and residents to control it.

And all day long, that's all I did.

I'd see flare up, and flare up.

It was like constantly.

You were fighting the fire on your own property yourself.

Oh yes.

Oh, God, yeah.

I did that for weeks right outside my back door here.

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