OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR -- NEWS RELEASE -- GOV. GREEN, MAYOR BISSEN, OFFICIALS PROVIDE UPDATES ON MAUI WILDFIRES AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE EFFORTS

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"Like we saw in the pandemic, decisions we made can affect everyone across the islands. So what we're saying now is travel should not be to West Maui. But the other parts of Maui are safe. And the rest of the state, of course, is also safe.

I'll be making a much broader announcement and have a broader discussion about this on Friday in a statewide address. But we want people to travel to the state to the extent that they're not impacting the hard work that these extraordinary people are doing (supporting disaster recovery).

Also, I can tell you economic potential exists in great measure going forward in this district, in this region … I'm anticipating $500 to $600 million of added investment in some of the early cleanup and then there will be billions of dollars in reconstruction. And we also intend to do a public work program to hire local people, so that work comes and stays with our local people. A lot of money is going to be invested in Maui in a kind of an extraordinary way to relief efforts and that's going to help us survive,"

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