It's unclear if people were able to evacuate buildings that housed the elderly before the fire ravaged the block where they were located.
The search for victims of the historic Lahaina wildfire is still underway on Maui. And loved ones of the town's elderly and disabled population are fearing the worst.
But using both satellite imagery and videos shared on social media, Scripps News could see the building complex was one of the many parts of Lahaina devastated by the fire.
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