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Clayton Cockerham, a geospatial imaging specialist from the Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, expresses the importance of accurate data collection during debris removal operations to Emergency Field Office staff in Lahaina, Hawai‘i, Feb 4. Cockerham deployed to Maui to assist the Hawai’i Wildfire Recovery mission. USACE is overseeing the debris removal mission under a Federal Emergency Management Agency mission assignment, which is part of a coordinated effort with the Hawai‘i Emergency Management Agency, Maui County and the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up areas of the island affected by the August 2023 wildfires. (USACE Photo by Robert DeDeaux)