Daniel Jay Arroyo was 33 when the Kaloko Dam on Kauai failed in the early morning hours of March 14, 2006. He and his pregnant fiancée, Christina Michelle MacNees, were staying with friends on a six-acre property to celebrate their upcoming wedding and a child’s birthday when roughly 400 million gallons of water from the breached dam swept the home away.

Rescue and recovery efforts recovered the bodies of Aurora and Alan Dingwall and Christina MacNees, but Daniel Arroyo, friend Timothy Noonan, business partner Carl Rotstein, and young Rowan Dingwall were never found. Arroyo is presumed to have drowned in the flood; his body was not recovered.

An investigation later found the dam had not been inspected as required and that its spillway had been covered. The dam owner, James Pflueger, was indicted in connection with the collapse; the case later resolved by a plea to reckless endangerment and the company accepting responsibility for manslaughter counts. Does anyone have memories of Daniel or the gathering on that property that could add to the record?