{"id":1998726,"date":"2023-08-12T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-firefighters-contain-100-of-one-fire-in-west-maui-as-death-toll-rises-to-80\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T16:02:22","slug":"hawaii-fire-firefighters-contain-100-of-one-fire-in-west-maui-as-death-toll-rises-to-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-firefighters-contain-100-of-one-fire-in-west-maui-as-death-toll-rises-to-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii fire: One fire in West Maui fully contained as death toll reaches 80."},"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\">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%2Fhawaii-fire-firefighters-contain-100-of-one-fire-in-west-maui-as-death-toll-rises-to-80%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=1998726&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>Maui County Officials Confirm Containment of Wildfire<\/h2>\n<p>Exciting \u200dnews emerged late Friday\u2064 as Maui County officials announced that one\u2063 of the four devastating wildfires had\u2062 been successfully contained. The fire in Ka\u2019anapali, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">small community<\/a> with a\u200b population of just over 1,000 people, \u200cwas extinguished by 6:10 p.m., bringing a glimmer of\u200d hope \u200bto the affected residents.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the west Maui area is \u2063currently restricted via Ma\u2019alaea and \u2064Waihe\u2019e due to a second fire located just\u2062 south of Ka&#8217;anapali. However, there is\u200c some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-loses-latest-battle-with-teleprompter\/\" title=\"Biden Fails Again With Teleprompter\">positive news amidst<\/a> the \u200dchaos, as cellphone service in the area has significantly improved,\u2062 providing a lifeline for those affected.<\/p>\n<h3>Wonderful or Worrisome? What to Know About New Weight \u2062Loss Drugs<\/h3>\n<p>The Ka\u2019anapali fire had been raging near a county\u200d fueling station, which had been set up\u200c to distribute much-needed fuel to\u2064 approximately 400 vehicles. \u2064An estimated 3,000 gallons of\u2062 gas and 500 gallons of diesel were prepared for\u200c distribution \u2064before the\u2064 operation began. However,\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-sheriffs-tell-newsom-they-wont-enforce-covid-curfew\/\" title=\"California Sheriffs Tell Newsom They Won't Enforce COVID Curfew\">county officials<\/a> have \u2064confirmed\u200c that no fuel will be distributed on Saturday. Firefighters are tirelessly working to extinguish flare-ups\u200b and contain fires in\u2062 Lahaina, Pulehu\/Kihei, and \u200bUpcountry Maui.<\/p>\n<p>As a result\u200b of\u2062 these efforts, Honoapiilani Highway is now open for evacuees leaving Lahaina. However, it is important to note that the town is currently barricaded, and officials strongly advise \u200dlocals to\u2063 avoid the area\u200c due to the\u2063 presence of \u2064toxic particles.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating impact of these wildfires is \u2063becoming increasingly apparent, \u200cwith the death toll reaching 80 \u200bas of Friday.\u2064 This tragedy is beginning to \u2062rival\u200c the 2018 Camp Fire \u200bin Paradise, California, which claimed the lives of 85 people \u200dand \u200cstood as the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-death-toll-rises-to-67-as-firefighting-efforts-continue\/\" title=\"Hawaii fire death toll climbs to 67, firefighting ongoing.\">deadliest wildfire<\/a> in the past century.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the chaos, approximately 1,418 individuals have found refuge in various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-firefighters-contain-100-of-one-fire-in-west-maui-as-death-toll-rises-to-80\/\" title=\"Hawaii fire: One fire in West Maui fully contained as death toll reaches 80.\">makeshift \u200bemergency evacuation\u200d shelters<\/a>. These include the War Memorial Gymnasium, Hannibal Tavares Community Center, Maui High School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Maui\u2062 Lani, Kings Cathedral Church, \u2063and Grace\u200d Bible Church.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u2062county&#8217;s latest update, the Lahaina\u200d fire is\u200b currently 85% contained,\u200b the Pulehu\/Kihei fire stands at 80%\u2062 containment, and the\u2064 Upcountry\u200b Maui \u2062fire is at 50% containment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from \u200dThe Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maui County officials confirmed on Friday that one of the four wildfires was fully contained. Ka&#8217;anapali, with a population of over 1,000, extinguished its fire by 6:10 p.m. Access to the west Maui area is limited through Ma&#8217;alaea and Waihe&#8217;e due to a separate fire located south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1998727,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1998726","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}