Front Street wildfire recovery moving slower than other parts of Lahaina

LAHAINA, Maui — Maui wildfire survivors Michele and Qiana Di Bari were able to move back to their Lahaina home last year, but they say it has been at least six months since they have visited Front Street, where their decade-old restaurant Sale Pepe Pizzeria e Cucina was lost to the flames.

The couple, who loved the bustling, quirky, melting pot-feel of historic Front Street before the fires, say going there now reinforces the trauma of what they and other Lahaina residents experienced.

It’s been two years since the nation’s deadliest fire in more than a century burned Lahaina town to the ground and killed 102 people. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its federal, state and local partners have cleared all of Lahaina’s commercial and residential lots, and more than 40 homes have begun t