There's little that separates the ocean from the 2,200 burned buildings in Lahaina. Officials are working to block runoff that could harm the coral reefs offshore.
The extreme wildfire that hit Lahaina burned all the way to the coast. As the clean up continues, rainstorms could wash toxic runoff into the ocean.
"The rain is going to wash everything away, and then our ocean is going to be dead," says Travis Cabanilla Okano, who lost his home in the fire."Our reef – that's what my family lives on. We do fishing, diving. Everything we do is with the water."State and federal agencies are now installing barriers to catch debris, as well as putting monitoring equipment in the ocean to measure the impact on the ecosystem.
"You've got a car and heavy metals in the catalytic converters," Storlazzi says."But then you've also burned the fuel in the gas tank and the rubber tires. There's such a wide range of chemicals in there. Same thing in a house." "We're hoping to restrict any oil or hazardous material from entering into the water," says U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Trenton Brown."Unfortunately I don't think we'll be able to stop it all, but we'll do our best."
"What that does is it blocks the sun reaching corals, and corals are photosynthetic organisms so they need light to produce energy and therefore survive," says Jamison Gove, research oceanographer with the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration.
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