As crews began to assess the damage from thedeadly wildfiresthatkilled dozenson the Hawaiian island of Maui, satellite images show the extent ofthe devastation. Massive blazes broke out and spread rapidly on Maui and the Big Island earlier this week, as strong winds generated by Hurricane Dora ...
Green had said earlier Tuesday during an appearance on Hawaii News Now that children are among the victims of the fires. The fire is the deadliest in the U.S. in the past century. It has surpassed the toll of the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California, which left 85 dead. A century ea...
Telescope captures deadly Hawaii fires However, high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation, are likely to have contributed, according to Major General Kenneth S. Hara, the Adjutant General for the State of Hawaii. "We had all those three - so we knew the conditions were ve...
"On behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard, I wish to convey my sincere condolences to the communities who have been tragically affected by the fires in Maui," said Capt. Aja L. Kirksey, Sector Commander of Coast Guard Sector Honolulu, in a statement. "Our collaboration with partner agencies and...
The first warning signs came more than a week ago, when on Aug. 4 the National Weather Servicesaidto expect dry weather and high fire danger in Hawaii the following Monday into Wednesday as a system of low pressure — namely, a hurricane — moved from southeast of Hawaii to southwest of ...
HawaiiAssociated PressMaui wildfires: Police release bodycam video of initial response Maui police held a news conference to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town in August. HONOLULU (AP) - Maui police held a news conference on Monday to ...
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"We were fighting multiple fires that were being moved. Because of these winds, we're of course, like everyone else, dealing with the extreme changes, global warming, the drying of our land. And then when this storm passed to the south of Hawaii, that was the hurricane -- it sent ...
A ghost crab scuttles near the water on a beachfront property, July 6, 2024, in Lahaina, Hawaii.Lindsey Wasson/AP Complicating monitoring efforts is the fact that wildfires -- especially urban fires than contain man-made chemicals -- rarely occur near reef systems. Therefore, ...
Hawaii's deadliest natural disaster since it became a state The wildfires have become state's deadliest natural disaster in decades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people. An even deadlier tsunami in 1946, which killed more than 150 on the Big Island, prompted development...