Coast Guard Capt. Melanie A. Burnham, commanding officer of the Gulf Strike Team in Mobile, Alabama, poses for a photo, Dec. 1, 2023, in Lahaina on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Burnham mobilized to the disaster zone, where she spent more than four months overseeing the Coast Guard’s response from inception through to demobilization; Burnham served as the Coast Guard's incident commander for the Western Maui Wildfires Emergency Support Function #10 Unified Command, comprised of the U.S. Coast Guard, Hawaii Department of Health and Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, and led its waterside mission to remove fire-damaged vessels, incident-generated debris and mitigate pollution in Lahaina Harbor following the August wildfires. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Hillard)