HAWAIIAN PADDLE OUT FOR LAHAINA at Waikiki Beach, Oahu
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Maui, known for its breathtaking landscapes and vibrant culture, has recently faced one of its greatest challenges - wildfires. These wildfires have left a trail of destruction, affecting both the environment and especially the people who call this island home.
The deadliest wildfire in the past 100 years in the U.S. tragically burnt much of the historic town of Lahaina to ashes. At this time there have been 114 lives reported lost with only 58% of the rubble being searched. Much of the touristic and economic hub of Lahaina, on the island's western edge, was destroyed. A perfect storm of hurricane-force winds mixed with drought and wildfire led to the deadly blazes. The fire spread at speeds up to one mile per minute, creating a dangerous inferno and leaving those in the area little, to no time to escape.
Today, on Oahu, many came together to mourn in solidarity with a paddle out and reinvigorate the local community to help Maui heal over the long haul. Many on Oahu are closely connected to Lahaina whether it's through friends, family or community. There have been donation drives and a lot of aid coming from Oahu directly to Maui to help those suffering.
The Hawaiian paddle out is a traditional Hawaiian tribute to the life and legacy of people who passed away. The practice was born in the Hawaiian Islands, but made common by The Waikiki Beach Boys in the early 1900's with the growing Hawaiian surfing community. Waikiki is the perfect place to actively continue this tradition, with hundreds coming out to participate and pay homage to the West Maui communities suffering. Participants brought flowers, leis, and boards with Native Hawaiian community leaders leading a chant or prayer in unison directed toward helping Maui heal.
Let the paddle out and community coming together inspire, and invigorate the next steps of healing, protection, and rebuilding of Lahaina and her surrounding community struck by tragedy. Let us remember that this is a marathon, not a sprint and that there will be a lot of resources needed by the community to survive and rebuild. Please consider donating and supporting the West Maui community.
Ways to support:
Directly to families: docs.google.co...
Go Fund Me - Strat Streetman, local Maui resident who has been volunteering since the early days of the tragedy, trusted friend, Maui drone op and amazing person: www.gofundme.c...
Maui food bank: mauifoodbank.org/
Maui Humane Society: www.mauihumane...
Amazon link with goods going directly to those impacted: www.amazon.com...
Prints for Maui - printsformaui.... 100% of proceeds going to Maui
For daily updates on the disaster, here are a few pages to keep up with on Instagram:
@countyofmaui - for official updates
@KaiLenny -local pro surfer and avid volunteer
@communityreliefmaui - volunteer opportunities and updates
Let's stand together with Maui in their journey towards recovery and restoration.
#MauiStrong
Thank you to Na Kama Kai and Duane Desoto for helping lead + organize the paddle out.
Oahu Drone Op & Editor: Connor Trimble @ConnorTrimble
Maui Drone Op: Strat Streetman @Stratocous
Water Video: Tommy Pierucki @TommyPierucki
Thumbnail Image: Matt Leong
The intent of this video is to bring awareness to the tragedy that has befallen Maui. To inspire others showing the community coming together and showing the world the unity of the people of Hawai'i. That's why news agencies and individuals can use the video footage for non-commercial purposes. See below for details:
Copyright:
"License: This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. You are free to share and adapt this content for non-commercial purposes, as long as you provide proper attribution to Connor Trimble, Strat Streetman, Matt Leong and Tommy Pierucki. Commercial use and resale are not allowed without explicit permission from Connor Trimble."
Music:
Aloha Oe - Harry Kalapana
Aloha Hawai'i - Harry Kalapana
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Nice work. Beautiful 👍
It's the most beautiful show of respect I think I've ever seen.
Thank you for including U.S. We all love you!
Thank you. I honeymooned in Lahaina in 1989. I have been back to Hawaii - not Maui but Oahu 5 times since then. I cried watching this as the mana from the people is heartelt
Beautiful tribute.
Malama aina. ☮️❤️
Beautiful work
Beautiful video Connor!
Thank you (:
Always love your camera work Connor. Capture the story, lots of content, camera angles, land pov drone. So sad for the Lahaina’s people and Maui. And now the rich and powerful want to take their land. Anyway, mahalo for your fine work. Aloha🙏🏼
thank you!
@@ConnorTrimble Hey Conner, you know how talented I feel you and Kyle Kaiser are as cameramen and film producers. Wanted to share this just released video from Kyle on EHHL. Blown away by his vision, spectacular content, superb edit combined with intense music, the pace, slo-mo’s, telling the story. There are many who film surfing, but few who capture the soul of a moment the way you two do. Hope you don’t mind me sharing this with you🤙🏼 Surfing XXL Waimea Bay :
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Good job conner
Thank you!
So beautiful to see the support fr the people. Please let us find the truth of what happened on Maui and remove those who caused this tragedy and have given no support to the victims.
Those tall buildings hide the beautiful mountains. Someday may Hawaii return to its sovereignty and village culture
🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼
World heritage has been destroyed but not the Spirit 🌬️ 🌸🙌🏼🌸🫶🏼🌸🙌🏼🌸 💨.
It’s the Hawaiians land, given to them from the creator, not men who lost their souls with bad intentions!