Dozens of Hawaii neighborhoods have joined Firewise USA, a national nonprofit program that helps residents assess their fire ...

We lost all of our Native American regalia, our feathers, our fans, our moccasins, and my peace pipe," Charles Walking Child ...

Fire meant home, where there was always something ... He points to his sons, now 35 and 26, who have embraced their Native American heritage even more strongly than their father.

“That means all that stuff is not in people’s yards,” she said on a blustery July day in Kahikinui, a remote Native Hawaiian ... from the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association ...