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Aug 2023
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Hawaii comes together in the face of tra...

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SBS's Janice Petersen talks to Allison Schaefers, Bureau chief at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper, about how the community is coping with the tragedy of the Maui wildfire disaster. 
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