The fire-ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 15, 2023. /Reuters Federal officials sent a mobile morgue with coroners, pathologists and technicians to Hawaii to help identify the dead, as Maui County released the first names of people killed in the wildfi...
She said no Hawaiian would be "swimming, snorkelling, surfing" in such tragic circumstances. "Nobody is having fun in tragedy and continuing their lives as if nothing happened," she said. "There is two Hawaiis now. The Hawaii we're living in and the Hawaii they're living in." Local o...
Authorities in Hawaii are pleading with relatives of those missing after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century to come forward and give DNA samples.
000 visitors were moved off the island Wednesday, with an estimated additional 14,500 to be moved off the island on Thursday, to either "return home or continue with their vacation elsewhere in Hawaii."
After my recent trip to Maui and Oahu, I can report that Hawaii is fully open for business outside of the area of the island that was directly impacted by the fire. Now may be a great time to visit as the number of tourists is down. ...
2023,devastating firesaffectedthe island of Maui in Hawaii. Over 100 people died as a direct result of the blaze that swept through Lahaina on August 8. During this firestorm, more than 80 percent of the historic town of Lahaina burned to the ground. Did the huge banyan tree in town ...
the blaze ravaged the community, killing 100 people. All told, the fires burned more than 6,600 acres and left thousands of homes and other structures in ruins. It would quickly rank as theworst natural disasterin Hawaii history, officials say, and America'sdeadliestwildfire in over...
Aflash droughtin the region provided plenty of kindling, and Hurricane Dora brought strong winds to Maui as it passed roughly 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of the Hawaii island chain. Those winds downed at least 30 power poles in West Maui, and Hawaiian Electric had no procedure in...
The Heth family in Hawaii. They went to bed in the dark, then at 3:30 a.m. were jolted awake when the condo's emergency alarm went off and an announcement came, repeated over and over, to evacuate right away. The fire – which ultimately killed 101 people and destroyed more th...
A serious landfill fire results in the downgrading of a ‘controlled’ landfill to ‘uncontrolled’ status, or in practical terms the waste mass becomes…