A Buddhist priest from Japan based in Lahaina on Hawaii's Maui island cherishes a photograph of his place of worship before it was engulfed in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.Ai Hironaka, 46, resident minister at the Lahaina Hongwanji temple, now lives as an evacuee with his family at a friend's house in the island's northern region of Kahului.During a recent interview with Kyodo News, he clutched in his hands the Aug. 9 paper edition of The Maui News. On the front page was his temple up in flames. "The day after the fire, I realized my temple was burned down because this…READ FULL ARTICLE
