re: Wildfires on Maui Island - Evacuations - People Fleeing into Ocean

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Equating all native fire practices to "random self-serving burning" is a pretty narrow view of it. Also, insinuating that all those were natives doing the burning isn't helpful, or l
likely even true.

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Narrow view? Mine was a very focused view of facts and laws gained from dealing with the issue of large scale burning in the islands where coral bleaching and the killing of fish are major concerns for environments which are very dependent upon the reefs and fish.
As to "insinuating," I stated what was a known fact as local people admitted it and nobody contradicted their admissions.
The only remaining issue was whether it would be continued as a lawful practice by various entities which hold a role in deciding such issues.

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Areas of the country that have worked to bring the native population back into the fold (with planned and and safely carried out prescribed burns) have seen marked improvement over areas that still fight the notion.

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Different environment, different people and different legal situations. Applying your US mainland facts, ownership and laws to a situation on the other side of the ocean is peculiar at best.

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At the very least they should be "allowed" to burn on their own lands.

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Really? How did you determine this ownership/legality issue? How did you decide to permit the practice which is widely believed to have seriously detrimental environmental impacts to the reefs and fish around the island which those islands largely depend upon?
Sounds like you are applying solutions applicable to the US desert southwest to situations involving Pacific islands and calling it a day.
Not likely to obtain an acceptable result...