{"id":1999077,"date":"2023-08-12T22:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T02:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/search-crews-work-to-tally-deaths-from-hawaii-wildfires-death-toll-expected-to-rise\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T02:49:02","slug":"search-crews-work-to-tally-deaths-from-hawaii-wildfires-death-toll-expected-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/search-crews-work-to-tally-deaths-from-hawaii-wildfires-death-toll-expected-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Search teams are counting deaths from Hawaii wildfires, expecting an increase in the death toll."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fsearch-crews-work-to-tally-deaths-from-hawaii-wildfires-death-toll-expected-to-rise%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=1999077&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>Deadly Wildfire Devastates Maui<\/h2>\n<p>LAHAINA, Hawaii\u2014The grim work of tallying the dead after a ferocious wildfire on the\u2062 Hawaiian island of Maui came into\u200b sharp focus Saturday as \u200bcrews picked through\u2062 the \u2062devastation, marking homes with\u200b a bright\u200d orange X to signal they had searched \u2062for bodies and HR when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-authorities-have-found-human-remains-in-vicinity-of-explosion-in-nashville\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Authorities Have Found Human Remains in Vicinity of Explosion in Nashville\">found human remains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The inferno swept through the centuries-old town of Lahaina \u200don Maui\u2019s west coast, reducing hundreds \u2062of\u2063 homes to\u200b ash. The state&#8217;s chief executive said he expects more \u200dbodies to\u200d be found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are\u200d already 80 fatalities.\u2063 It\u2019s going to rise,&#8221; Gov. Josh Green remarked\u200b Saturday as\u2062 he toured the devastation \u2064on historic\u2063 Front Street. &#8220;It will certainly be the\u200b worst natural \u200cdisaster that Hawaii ever faced. &#8230; We\u2063 can\u2063 only wait and support those who are living.\u200b Our focus now is to reunite people when we can and get them housing and \u2062get them health care, and\u200b then turn to rebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related\u2063 Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/maui-wildfire-death-toll-hits-80-as-questions-raised-over-warnings-5461136\">Questions Raised Over Warnings in Maui Wildfires<\/a> \u2063 &#8211; 8\/12\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/gov-newsom-sending-resources-search-and-rescue-teams-to-assist-hawaii-5459840\">Gov. Newsom Sending Resources, Search and Rescue Teams to Assist Hawaii<\/a> \u2063- 8\/11\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who escaped \u2064were counting their blessings, \u2063thankful to\u200d be alive as \u200cthey mourned those who didn&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p>Retired fire captain Geoff Bogar and his friend of 35 years, Franklin Trejos, initially stayed behind to help others in Lahaina and save Mr. Bogar&#8217;s house. But as the flames moved closer and closer Tuesday afternoon, they knew they had to get out. \u200cEach\u200c escaped to his own car. When\u2062 Mr.\u2064 Bogar&#8217;s wouldn&#8217;t\u2062 start, he broke\u2062 through a \u200dwindow to get out, then\u2064 crawled\u2063 on the ground \u200duntil\u2062 a police patrol found him and brought \u200chim to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trejos wasn&#8217;t as lucky. When\u200d Mr. Bogar returned \u200cthe next day, he found the bones of his 68-year-old friend in\u2062 the back seat\u2064 of his car, lying\u2064 on\u2062 top \u200bof the remains of the Mr. \u200dBogars&#8217; beloved 3-year-old \u200dgolden retriever Sam,\u2064 whom he had tried to \u2063protect.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trejos, a native of \u200bCosta Rica, had lived for years with\u200b Mr. Bogar and his wife, Shannon Weber-Bogar, helping her with her seizures when her husband couldn&#8217;t. He filled their lives with love and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Bill\u200d Wyland, who lives on the island of Oahu but owns an \u200dart gallery\u2064 on Lahaina&#8217;s historic Front Street, fled on his Harley Davidson,\u200c whipping \u2064the\u200d motorcycle onto empty \u2064sidewalks Tuesday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/search-crews-work-to-tally-deaths-from-hawaii-wildfires-death-toll-expected-to-rise\/\" title=\"Search teams are counting deaths from Hawaii wildfires, expecting an increase in the death toll.\">avoid traffic-jammed roads<\/a> as \u200cembers \u2063burned the hair off the back\u2062 of his neck.<\/p>\n<p>Riding in winds he estimated to \u2064be at least 70 miles per hour, he passed a \u200cman on\u200c a bicycle who was madly pedaling for his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something\u200d you\u2019d see in a Twilight Zone, horror\u200d movie or something,\u201d Mr. Wyland \u2062said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wyland realized just how lucky he had been\u200d when he returned\u200c to \u200cdowntown\u200c Lahaina on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was devastating to see all \u200dthe burned-out\u2064 cars. \u2062There was nothing that was standing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His gallery \u200cwas destroyed, along with the works of 30 artists.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency\u2064 managers in Maui were searching for places to\u200b house people displaced from their \u200dhomes. As many as 4,500 people are in \u2064need \u200cof shelter, county officials said on\u200b Facebook early Saturday, citing\u2064 figures from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and\u200d the Pacific Disaster Center.<\/p>\n<p>Flyovers by the Civil Air\u200d Patrol found 1,692 structures destroyed\u2014almost all of them\u200c residential. Nine\u200b boats sank in Lahaina Harbor, officials determined using sonar.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires are \u200bthe state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survivors-ever-harder-to-find-as-workers-to-continue-to-search-the-rubble-in-syria-and-turkey\/\" title=\"Survivors Ever Harder to Find as Workers to Continue to Search the Rubble in Syria and Turkey\">deadliest natural disaster<\/a> \u2064in decades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that \u2064killed 61 people. An even \u200cdeadlier \u200btsunami in 1946, which \u2063killed more \u200cthan 150 on the Big \u200dIsland, prompted development of a territory-wide emergency system with sirens that are tested monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii emergency management\u2064 records do not\u2064 indicate\u2063 warning sirens \u200dsounded before people had to run for their lives. Officials\u2062 sent alerts \u2062to mobile phones, televisions, and radio stations, but widespread \u200cpower and cellular outages may have \u200dlimited their reach.<\/p>\n<p>Fueled by a\u200d dry summer and\u200c strong winds from \u200ca passing\u200d hurricane, the wildfires on Maui raced through\u2062 parched\u2063 brush covering the island.<\/p>\n<p>The most serious blaze \u2062swept\u200d into Lahaina on Tuesday and destroyed nearly every building in\u200d the town of \u206213,000, leaving a grid of gray rubble wedged \u2062between the\u200d blue\u200c ocean and lush\u200b green slopes.<\/p>\n<p>Front Street, the heart of\u2062 the\u2062 historic \u2062downtown and the economic hub\u2063 of\u200d Maui, was\u200c nearly empty\u200d of life Saturday morning. An Associated Press journalist encountered one barefoot resident carrying a\u2063 laptop and passport\u200d who asked \u200cwhere the nearest shelter was. Another, riding his bicycle, took \u2063stock of the \u2062damage at\u200b the \u2064harbor, where he said his boat caught fire and sank.<\/p>\n<p>A fire \u2062engine and\u2063 a f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>town of Lahaina, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Rescue teams meticulously combed through the wreckage, using orange X marks to indicate areas already searched for bodies. Tragically, human remains were discovered, intensifying the somber task of accounting for the lives lost in this devastating wildfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1999078,"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-1999077","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\/1999077","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}