A Maui restaurant owner is ‘praying visitors will start to come back soon’

• Local businesses on Maui say they’re suffering as tourism falls following deadly wildfires. 
• The devastating blazes killed at least 114 people and left many more homeless. 
• “We just hope that we will survive this,” Epic Maui Hikes said after numerous canceled bookings. 

A restaurant owner in Maui says he’s “praying visitors will start to come back soon” as local businesses suffer from a dearth of tourists. 

Coconut’s Fish Cafe owner Michael Phillips told Insider that “Maui is in mourning” following the devastating wildfires that have killed at least 114 people and left thousands homeless.