Lahaina residents begin returning to sites of homes destroyed by deadly wildfire

Summer Gerling in the rubble of her home (Rick Bowmer/AP)

Some Lahaina residents returned to their devastated properties on Monday for the first time since the Hawaii town was destroyed by wildfire nearly seven weeks ago.

Authorities allowed residents into the first area to be cleared for re-entry, a zone of about two dozen parcels in the northern part of Lahaina, between 8am and 4pm.