Federal and state authorities briskly stepped in to provide aid and support, and the news media set out to uncover what exactly happened in the state that provides our nation's only defense against the looming threat of China... right? WRONG. Joe Biden showed up TWO WEEKS after the fires to tell an incoherent anecdote about how he once almost lost a Corvette in a fire, and the incident remained shrouded in mystery, allowing for conspiracy theories, like direct energy weapons, to permeate social media feeds. 

So, what really happened in Maui? Lauren Chen and the Blaze Originals team traveled to Maui to expose the shocking institutional and governmental failures that exacerbated the fires, destroyed thousands of lives, and allowed for a select few to profit from the disaster.