{"id":1998582,"date":"2023-08-12T05:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T09:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfire-death-toll-hits-80-as-questions-raised-over-warnings\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T10:02:09","slug":"maui-wildfire-death-toll-hits-80-as-questions-raised-over-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfire-death-toll-hits-80-as-questions-raised-over-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui wildfire claims 80 lives, concerns arise about warnings."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fmaui-wildfire-death-toll-hits-80-as-questions-raised-over-warnings%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=1998582&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--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Tragedy Strikes Maui: Death\u2062 Toll\u2063 Rises to 80 in Devastating Wildfires<\/h2>\n<p>MAALAEA, \u2062Hawaii\u2014The death \u200ctoll from the Maui\u200c wildfires\u2064 rose to 80 on Friday \u200cas search teams combed through the smoldering ruins of Lahaina, and \u200bHawaiian officials sought to determine how the inferno\u200c spread so rapidly through the \u2064historic resort town with little warning.<\/p>\n<p>The fires became the deadliest \u200cnatural disaster in the state&#8217;s history, surpassing that of a tsunami that killed 61 people on the \u200bBig Island of Hawaii in 1960,\u200c a year after Hawaii joined the United\u2063 States.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have\u200c warned that search teams with cadaver dogs could still find more dead from the fire that\u2064 torched 1,000 buildings\u200c and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-africa-floods-loss-of-life-toll-rises-to-443-with-dozens-still-missing\/\" title=\"South Africa Floods Loss of life Toll Rises to 443 With Dozens Still Missing\">left thousands homeless<\/a>, likely requiring many years and \u200bbillions of dollars to rebuild.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/death-toll-from-hawaii-wildfires-rises-to-67-as-new-fire-prompts-evacuations-5461015\">Death Toll From Hawaii Wildfires Rises to 67 as New\u2064 Fire Prompts Evacuations<\/a> (8\/12\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/up-to-1000-people-missing-on-hawaiis-maui-island-as-fires-continue-to-blaze-5458736\">Up to 1,000 People\u200c Missing on Hawaii\u2019s Maui Island as Fires Continue to Blaze<\/a> (8\/11\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody has entered any \u200bof these structures that have burned down and that&#8217;s where \u200dwe unfortunately anticipate \u2063that the death toll will rise significantly,&#8221; U.S. Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii told MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>In a late evening statement,\u2062 Maui County said that the death toll had risen to 80.<\/p>\n<p>The Lahaina fire that spread\u2062 from the brush to town\u200d was still burning\u2062 but 85 percent contained, \u200cthe \u200ccounty said earlier. Two \u2064other wildfires on \u200cthe\u2062 island were 80 percent and 50 percent contained.<\/p>\n<p>Three days after the disaster, it remained unclear whether some residents had received any warning before the fire\u200c engulfed their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The island has emergency sirens intended to warn\u200b of natural disasters and other threats, but they did not appear\u200b to have sounded during the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I authorized a comprehensive review this morning to \u200cmake sure that we know exactly what happened and when,&#8221;\u2063 Hawaii Governor Josh Green\u200c told CNN, referring to the \u2064warning sirens.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not offered a detailed picture\u2064 of precisely what notifications were sent out, and\u2063 whether they\u2062 were done via text message, email, or phone\u200b calls.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Green described multiple, simultaneous challenges, \u2062with telecommunications down and firefighters concentrating on other major wildfires when\u2064 the greatest\u2062 threat to\u2064 Lahaina arose.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, he said, &#8220;We will do all that we can to find out\u2063 how to protect our people more going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maui County Fire Chief Bradford\u200b Ventura said at a press conference on Thursday that the fire&#8217;s speed made it &#8220;nearly impossible&#8221; for \u200cfrontline responders\u2063 to communicate with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governors-in-northeast-states-battered-by-ida-take-emergency-action\/\" title=\"Governors in Northeast states battered by Ida take emergency action\">emergency management officials<\/a> who would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfire-death-toll-hits-80-as-questions-raised-over-warnings\/\" title=\"Maui wildfire claims 80 lives, concerns arise about warnings.\">typically provide\u200d real-time evacuation orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were basically self-evacuating with fairly little notice,&#8221; he said, referring to residents\u200c of the neighborhood where the fire initially\u200b struck.<\/p>\n<p>County Mayor Richard\u200c Bissen told \u2064NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; \u2063show on Friday that he did not know\u200b whether sirens went off but said the fire moved extraordinarily quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this was\u200c an impossible situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>An aerial image shows destroyed homes \u2064and \u2063buildings on\u2063 the waterfront burned to the \u2064ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western\u200d Maui, Hawaii on \u200dAug. 10, \u200c2023. (Patrick Fallon\/AFP\u2063 via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Rapid Advance<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cruz-grills-blinken-over-bidens-disaster-in-afghanistan\/\" title=\"WATCH: Cruz Grills Blinken Over Biden\u2019s Disaster In Afghanistan\">disaster began unfolding<\/a> just after midnight on Tuesday when a \u200dbrush fire \u200cwas reported in the town of Kula, roughly 35 miles (56 km) from \u200cLahaina. About five hours later that morning,\u200c power was \u2062knocked\u2062 out in Lahaina, according to residents.<\/p>\n<p>In updates posted on Facebook that morning, Maui County said the Kula fire\u2063 had consumed \u2064hundreds of acres of \u2063pastureland, \u200cbut that a small three-acre\u2063 (1.2-hectare) brush \u200cfire that cropped up\u200c in Lahaina had been contained.<\/p>\n<p>By that afternoon, however, the situation had turned more dire.\u200b At around \u200c3:30 p.m., according to the county&#8217;s updates, \u2064the Lahaina fire suddenly flared \u200bup. Some residents began evacuating while people, including hotel guests, on\u200c the town&#8217;s west side were instructed to\u2062 shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2062 the ensuing hours, the county posted a series of evacuation orders on\u200c Facebook as the fire spread through\u200b the town.<\/p>\n<p>Some \u200dwitnesses said they \u2062had \u200dlittle advance notice, describing their terror\u200c when the blaze consumed Lahaina in \u200cwhat seemed to be \u2063a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maui wildfires in MAALAEA, Hawaii claimed 80 lives, making it the deadliest natural disaster in the state&#8217;s history. Search teams are scouring the ruins of Lahaina to understand how the inferno rapidly engulfed the historic resort town without much warning. Hawaiian officials are investigating the cause of the devastating spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1998583,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1998582","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}