KIHEI, Hawaii: US Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Deanne Criswell said on Sunday (Aug 20) that President Joe Biden will reassure the people of Lahaina that they will be in control of how t
that they will be in control of how they rebuild when he visits the razed Maui community on Monday.
"He's going to be able to reassure the people of Maui that the federal government is there to support them, but we're doing it in a way that's going to allow them to rebuild the way they want to rebuild," she said. In a separate interview on ABC's This Week programme on Sunday, Criswell said search efforts in Lahaina town are 78 per cent complete and that victims have received more than US$8 million in federal assistance.
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