Deadly fire burns cultural and heritage buildings

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Let's get more now on the situation in Hawaii and the devastation left in the path of the fires. Some of the island state's most important heritage buildings have been lost or damaged.

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00:00 Bahainoa is one of the few places in the islands that was absolutely key in every era from

00:08 pre-contact through tourism.

00:11 And even more so, it was one of the sites that you could see the evidence in terms of

00:17 historic sites and artifacts in town still standing.

00:21 So you could walk down Front Street, which is our main street, and start in the pre-contact

00:25 era and pass through architecture and sites into the plantation era in just a number of

00:32 blocks.

00:33 So this is what has been lost.

00:36 So not just the homes, but in terms of the history, it's the bones of the history of

00:39 the town that have basically been lost.

00:43 Our first task is going to be to survey the sites, not just ours, but all the historic

00:47 sites.

00:48 This is a nationally designated area, as well as two local historic districts.

00:55 So we want to see what is the case across the board.

00:59 And then where the bones of the materials exist, we can reuse those to rebuild.

01:05 And then we'll have to make decisions about things that are 100% lost about whether it

01:09 serves the community's purposes to bring those back, to bring them back in a new, more sustainable

01:14 way, or maybe just to let them go.

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