{"id":1999097,"date":"2023-08-12T23:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T03:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-from-maui-wildfire-reaches-89-making-it-the-deadliest-in-the-us-in-more-than-100-years\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T23:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T03:49:47","slug":"death-toll-from-maui-wildfire-reaches-89-making-it-the-deadliest-in-the-us-in-more-than-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-from-maui-wildfire-reaches-89-making-it-the-deadliest-in-the-us-in-more-than-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui wildfire claims 89 lives, becoming deadliest in US in a century."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdeath-toll-from-maui-wildfire-reaches-89-making-it-the-deadliest-in-the-us-in-more-than-100-years%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=1999097&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 Sweeps Through Maui\u200b Town, Leaving \u2062Devastation \u200din Its Wake<\/h2>\n<p>LAHAINA, Hawaii\u2014A raging wildfire that swept \u2063through a\u2064 picturesque town on \u200cthe Hawaiian island \u2064of Maui\u2063 this \u200bweek has killed at least \u200b89 people, \u200cauthorities said Saturday, making\u200c it the deadliest U.S. wildfire of the past century.<\/p>\n<p>The new death toll Saturday\u2062 came as federal emergency workers with axes and cadaver dogs\u2064 picked through the aftermath\u200b of the\u2062 blaze, marking the\u2064 ruins of homes\u200d with a bright orange X for an initial search and HR when they found human remains.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs\u200c worked the rubble, and their occasional bark\u2014used to \u2062alert\u2062 their handlers to a possible corpse\u2014echoed over the hot and colorless \u200dlandscape.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related \u2063Stories<\/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> &#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\u200b Sending Resources, Search and Rescue Teams to Assist Hawaii<\/a> -\u200c 8\/11\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The inferno \u200cthat swept through the\u2063 centuries-old town of\u200b Lahaina on Maui\u2019s west \u2064coast four days earlier torched hundreds\u200d of homes and turned\u200d a lush, tropical area into a moonscape of ash. The state&#8217;s governor predicted more bodies will be found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to rise,&#8221;\u2063 Gov. Josh\u200c Green remarked Saturday as he toured the devastation on historic Front Street. &#8220;It will \u200dcertainly be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-residents-on-kentucky-tornado-damage-footage-ive-never-seen-destruction-like-this-in-my-life\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Residents On Kentucky Tornado Damage Footage: \u2018I\u2019ve Never Seen Destruction Like This In My Life\u2019\">worst natural disaster<\/a> that Hawaii\u2063 ever \u200dfaced &#8230; We \u2062can only wait and support\u200d those who are living.\u200b Our focus \u2064now\u2062 is\u2064 to \u2063reunite people when we can and get them housing and get them health care, and then turn to rebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At \u200bleast \u20642,200 buildings were damaged or destroyed \u200din West Maui,\u200b Green said, of which 86 percent \u200cwere residential. Across the island, he \u200dadded, damage was\u200c estimated at close to $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>At least two other fires have been \u2062burning in Maui, with no \u2062fatalities reported thus\u2063 far: in south \u200dMaui\u2019s Kihei area and in the \u200cmountainous, inland communities known as Upcountry. A fourth broke out\u200d Friday evening in Kaanapali, a coastal community in West Maui \u2064north of Lahaina, but crews were able to extinguish\u200c it, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Green said the \u2064Upcountry \u2062fire had affected\u200d 544 structures, of which 96 percent were residential.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-from-maui-wildfire-reaches-89-making-it-the-deadliest-in-the-us-in-more-than-100-years\/\" title=\"Maui wildfire claims 89 lives, becoming deadliest in US in a century.\">newly released death toll surpassed<\/a> the toll of the \u20622018 Camp Fire \u2063in northern \u200dCalifornia,\u2062 which left\u2062 85 dead and destroyed the town of Paradise. A \u2062century earlier, the 1918 Cloquet Fire broke out in\u200c drought-stricken northern Minnesota and raced through a number of rural communities, destroying thousands of homes and killing hundreds.<\/p>\n<p>Those who \u2062escaped counted their blessings, thankful to be\u200b alive as they 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\u2063 stayed behind to \u2063help others in Lahaina and save Bogar&#8217;s house. But as\u200c the <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.\">flames moved closer<\/a> and\u2064 closer \u200bTuesday afternoon, \u200bthey knew they had to get\u200c out. Each escaped to \u200bhis own car.\u200c When Bogar&#8217;s wouldn&#8217;t start, \u200dhe broke through\u200b a window to get\u2062 out, then crawled on the ground until a police patrol found\u200b him\u200b and \u2063brought him to \u200ca hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Trejos wasn&#8217;t as lucky. When\u2064 Bogar returned the next day,\u200d he found the bones of his 68-year-old friend in the back seat of his car, lying\u2063 on\u2063 top\u200c of the remains \u200dof the \u200cBogars&#8217; beloved \u20633-year-old golden retriever Sam, whom he had tried to protect.<\/p>\n<p>Trejos, a native of Costa Rica, had lived for years with \u2062Bogar and his wife, Shannon Weber-Bogar, helping\u200d her with her seizures \u2063when her husband couldn&#8217;t. He filled their lives \u2062with love\u200b and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod took a really good man,\u201d Weber-Bogar said.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Wyland, who lives on the island of Oahu \u200cbut owns an art gallery on Lahaina&#8217;s historic Front Street, fled on his\u2062 Harley Davidson,\u200c whipping the\u200b motorcycle onto empty sidewalks Tuesday to avoid\u2064 traffic-jammed\u2064 roads\u2062 as embers burned the \u200dhair off the back of his neck.<\/p>\n<p>Riding in winds he estimated \u200dto be at least 70 miles per hour, he passed a man\u200d on \u2062a bicycle who\u2063 was pedaling\u2063 for\u200d his \u2062life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something you\u2019d see in \u2064a Twilight Zone, horror movie \u200cor\u200b something,\u201d Wyland said.<\/p>\n<p>Wyland realized just how lucky he had been when he returned to \u200cdowntown Lahaina on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was \u200cdevastating to see all the burned-out cars. There was nothing \u200dthat was\u200d standing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His gallery was destroyed, along with the works of 30 artists.<\/p>\n<p>Nine boats sank in Lahaina Harbor, officials determined using \u200bsonar.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency managers in Maui were\u2062 searching for \u200cplaces to\u2062 house \u2063people \u2064displaced from their homes. As many as 4,500 people are in need of shelter, \u200bcounty officials said on Facebook early Saturday, citing figures \u2064from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pacific Disaster Center.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires are\u2063 the 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> in \u200cdecades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that \u2064killed 61 people. \u2064An even deadlier tsunami in 1946,\u2064 which killed more than \u200b150 \u2062on the Big \u200bIsland, prompted development \u2063of\u200c a \u2062territory-wide emergency \u200balert system with sirens that are tested monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii emergency\u2062 management\u2063 records do not indicate the warning sirens sounded\u200c before fire hit the town. Officials sent alerts to \u2062mobile phones, televisions\u2064 and \u2062radio stations, but widespread power and cellular outages may have \u2062limited their \u200creach.<\/p>\n<p>Fueled by a dry summer and\u2062 strong winds \u200dfrom a passing hurricane,\u2062 the wildfires on Maui raced through parched brush covering \u2063the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, has claimed the lives of 89 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century. 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