Obviously no shortage of water.
[NYPOST] A devastating firestorm has reduced many homes to ashes in Lahaina, a popular island tourist destination in Hawaii.
On Tuesday, brushfires fueled by high winds quickly spread and engulfed Lahaina on Maui’s western side.
The wall of flames is to blame for the death of at least 80 individuals, with a significant number of those remains discovered in Lahaina, government officials said at last check.
It makes it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state’s history.
Lahaina residents have slowly been allowed to return but forced to wait hours in their vehicles parked on the main road into town before entering the fire zone due to a nightfall curfew.
Those who have come back, or even lucky to be alive, return to charred buildings and scorched cars in the wildfires’ wake, drone footage captured Thursday by Javier Cantellops shows.
One estimate from the property data aggregator CoreLogic puts the estimate of destroyed homes at more than 3,000.
Cantellops said he was flying his drone to help assess the damage to the town.
In a presser, Hawaii Governor Josh Green says the number of confirmed deaths from the Maui wildfires has risen to 89, making it the deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years.
Maui County later raises the confirmed corpse count to 93.
There are 2,200 structures destroyed or damaged just in West Maui, and 86% of those are residential buildings, Green says.
"The losses approach $6 billion in estimate," Green says, adding that it will take "an incredible amount of time" to recover.
I’ve seen suggestions that at least some of the wildfire spread is due to arson.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] C’mon, maaaaannn — it’s past his bedtime over there.
- Biden is spending the weekend at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
- He and the first lady took a spin on their bikes on Sunday morning
- Meanwhile, the death toll on the Hawaii island of Maui continues to rise
- Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said that crews with cadaver dogs had covered just 3 percent of the search area.
I’ve seen guesstimates as high as 500 - 1000 unfound bodies — apparently the county’s warning alarms were not turned on.
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