{"id":1996363,"date":"2023-08-10T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-hawaiian-town-of-lahaina-wiped-out-by-fire-270-structures-damaged-36-dead\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T12:39:46","slug":"historic-hawaiian-town-of-lahaina-wiped-out-by-fire-270-structures-damaged-36-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-hawaiian-town-of-lahaina-wiped-out-by-fire-270-structures-damaged-36-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahaina, a historic Hawaiian town, devastated by fire: 270+ structures damaged, 36+ lives lost."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhistoric-hawaiian-town-of-lahaina-wiped-out-by-fire-270-structures-damaged-36-dead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Devastating Wildfire Ravages Historic Hawaiian Town \u200bof Lahaina<\/h2>\n<p>A massive wildfire decimated the historic Hawaiian town of Lahaina \u200don Maui\u200b this week, leaving behind scenes that \u2063are indistinguishable from a war \u200bzone.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c blazes erupted on Tuesday and continued \u2063to wreak havoc on \u2062the \u2063community on the western part of the island\u200c while flames raged in other \u200careas. \u200cThe \u2062fires have already engulfed thousands of acres and have killed at least 36 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlyovers today of Lahaina town by U.S. Civil Air\u2062 Patrol and Maui Fire Department showed that more than 271\u200b structures have been impacted,\u201d Maui County officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mauicounty.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=12653\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cWidespread \u200ddamage to the West\u200b Maui town, the harbor and surrounding areas are being documented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard used a 45-foot boat to rescue at least 14 people who were \u200cforced to run into the Pacific Ocean to\u200d escape the fires and thick plumes of smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Military has also been deployed to\u2062 respond \u2064to the emergency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emergency-hawaiian-fires-rage-on-forcing-some-locals-to-flee-into-ocean\/\" title=\"Hawaiian fires continue, locals forced to seek refuge in ocean.\">sending helicopters<\/a> and other equipment to\u2064 assist with rescue and firefighting operations.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Army 25th Combat\u2062 Aviation Brigade\u2062 deployed two UH-60 Blackhawks \u200band one CH-47 Chinook to Hawaii Island to conduct firefighting operations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpf.navy.mil\/Newsroom\/News\/Article\/3489089\/us-indo-pacific-command-assets-provide-firefighting-support-to-maui-and-hawaii\/\">said<\/a> the U.S. Indo-Pacific \u200dCommand. \u201cAdditionally,\u2063 U.S. Navy Helicopter Maritime\u2062 Strike Squadron 37 sent MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to assist the U.S.\u200c Coast Guard in search and rescue operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Footage from earlier today\u200b showing\u2064 the utter Devastation in the City of L\u0101hain\u0101 \u2062on the Hawaiian Island of Maui due to\u2063 Wildfires spread quickly by Heavy Winds from \u200dHurricane Dora to the South; the Governor of Hawaii, Josh Green has stated that at least 6\u2064 People were Killed just in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7JioGRtoRs\">pic.twitter.com\/7JioGRtoRs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sentdefender\/status\/1689457331459821568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lahaina, Maui, has \u2063been absolutely devastated by\u200b this fire \u2063that ripped across \u200dthe city, driven by\u2062 Hurricane Dora&#8217;s winds.<\/p>\n<p>Heartbreaking for Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude22\ud83c\udf34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yq2qVvjo9n\">pic.twitter.com\/Yq2qVvjo9n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1689418492624437248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a>: New video shows the moment a wildfire tore though homes in Lahaina.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hGkr7eRdpv\">https:\/\/t.co\/hGkr7eRdpv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HINews?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HINews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HNN?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HNN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U7ZdftV7S3\">pic.twitter.com\/U7ZdftV7S3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hawaii News Now\u200d (@HawaiiNewsNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawaiiNewsNow\/status\/1689533877889429504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u206310, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thousands of tourists\u200d have either already left or are in \u200dthe process of leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-hawaiian-town-of-lahaina-wiped-out-by-fire-270-structures-damaged-36-dead\/\" title=\"Lahaina, a historic Hawaiian town, devastated by fire: 270+ structures damaged, 36+ lives lost.\">island\u2064 amid continued evacuation efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/08\/09\/us\/wildfires-maui-hawaii\">highlighted<\/a> a small glimpse of the historical value that the town brought to the island:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Its\u200c heritage museum, in a landmark courthouse,\u200b houses artifacts \u2064from before the rest of the world knew \u200dHawaii existed. Its oldest building, \u200cthe\u2062 Baldwin Home, was occupied by the 19th-century\u2062 physician\u200c who saved Maui\u200b from an epidemic\u2064 of smallpox. Its \u200dcentral feature, a sprawling 150-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/and-then-we-drank-each-others-blood-megan-fox-and-machine-gun-kelly-get-engaged-and-celebrate-with-bodily-fluid-swap\/\" title=\"\u2018And Then We Drank Each Other\u2019s Blood\u2019: Megan Fox And Machine Gun Kelly Get Engaged And Celebrate With Bodily Fluid Swap\">banyan tree<\/a>, was planted to commemorate the arrival of Christian missionaries in 1873.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Heartbreaking\u2063 to believe the Lahaina Banyan \u200dTree is no longer standing. I took this video under it\u2019s leaves while\u2062 visiting my father in\u2062 law there\u2064 two summers ago. Please hold the people of Maui in your hearts \u2764\ufe0f \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hXxTDNBP2X\">pic.twitter.com\/hXxTDNBP2X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amalia (@zombalia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zombalia\/status\/1689312932054671362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9,\u2062 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The Waiola Church hall and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission temple are fully engulfed in flames on Tuesday afternoon&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m14QZJr9xM\">https:\/\/t.co\/m14QZJr9xM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nL8RzwODok\">pic.twitter.com\/nL8RzwODok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Lookner (@lookner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookner\/status\/1689344280991576064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating wildfire destroyed Lahaina, a historic Hawaiian town on Maui. The aftermath resembles a war zone, as the flames erupted on Tuesday and continued to ravage the western part of the island. Other areas also faced the wrath of the fires, which have already consumed vast areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1996364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}