Lahaina fire survivors test Maui County’s rules on living in the burn zone

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With the trailer on a barge en route to Hawaii, two business partners plan to set up a makeshift home on the now-cleared property.

For three weeks, heaping piles of gravel sat untouched on the dirt lot where Mario Siatris’ house once stood.

The gravel, a form of erosion control, needed to be spread out over the dirt, the final...