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Peyton Chesson and Zoe Chesson were renting a house on Kainau Road when the Lahaina fire broke out. They fled with their two children and eventually decided to move to Kona where Peyton had better job prospects. Peyton is back for closure and to see the two-bed, one-bath ohana unit they rented for the last eight years; relocating has been hard for the family.

By Jamm Aquino

Oct. 1, 2023

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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson sifts through the rubble of what used to be his bedroom as he visits his home for the first time since the wildfire.
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Peyton Chesson goes through some of the treasured belongings found among the rubble of the remains of his home.
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A burnt page of a Calvin and Hobbs comic is seen Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Volunteers with Samaritan’s Purse sift through the rubble of the home of Peyton and Zoe Chesson, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Peyton Chesson holds one of the treasured pieces of his wife’s belongings found among the rubble of the remains of his home, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Peyton Chesson goes through some of the treasured belongings found among the rubble of the remains of his home, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson is framed in the remains of his wife’s car, “Jellybean,” as he prepares to sift the remains of his home, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson, left, reacts as Samaritan’s Purse volunteer Katie Kanning shows him the Benchmade knife he was looking for amidst the remains of his home.
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Samaritan’s Purse volunteer Katie Kanning, of Riverside, Calif., holds trinkets founds in the remains of the home of Peyton and Zoe Chesson, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson unzips his PPE to take a break from sifting through the remains of his home, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Samaritan’s Purse volunteer and retired firefighter Miguel Garcia, left, finds a small trinket amidst the rubble of the home of Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson, right, as they sift through the home’s remains, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson pauses while sifting through the rubble of what used to be his and his wife’s bedroom as he visits his home for the first time since the wildfire.
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Melted glass is seen in the remains of the home of Peyton Chesson.
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Samaritan’s Purse volunteer Sue Slager, of Sebring, Fla., wipes her brow while going through the remains of the home of Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson, middle, cries as volunteers with Samaritan’s Purse present him with a bible, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.
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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson looks inside his kitchen’s oven amidst the rubble as he visits his home for the first time since the wildfire.
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Lahaina resident Peyton Chesson, right, embraces Samaritan’s Purse volunteer Katie Kanning, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui.

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