{"id":2020304,"date":"2023-09-02T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/total-missing-after-maui-fires-remains-near-400-after-governor-indicated-number-might-drop-under-100\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:56:40","slug":"total-missing-after-maui-fires-remains-near-400-after-governor-indicated-number-might-drop-under-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/total-missing-after-maui-fires-remains-near-400-after-governor-indicated-number-might-drop-under-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 400 people are still missing after the Maui fires, despite the governor&#8217;s suggestion that the number could decrease to less than 100."},"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\">46<\/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%2Ftotal-missing-after-maui-fires-remains-near-400-after-governor-indicated-number-might-drop-under-100%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=2020304&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>The Devastating Maui Wildfires: Over 400 People Still Missing<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The total number of missing\u200d people\u2064 from the devastating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/maui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maui<\/a> wildfires\u2063 last month remains near 400 even as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hawaii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hawaii<\/a> Governor Josh Green said that he believed the number would drop below 100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to new <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-maui-lahaina-fire-property-offers-proclamation-5c4db4072dc4237da4213800444f4f17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numbers released<\/a> \u200con Friday by the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI,<\/a> there are still 385 people missing after fires tore through Maui and left \u2062at least \u2062115 people dead. Last week, the number \u200cof missing people stood at 388. While 245 people were removed from last week\u2019s list, another 242 people were added, keeping it at nearly\u200b the same number. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Hope Fades as \u200bthe Search Continues<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The updates came\u200c a day after\u200d Green said\u200d he\u2063 believed the number of \u2062missing was somewhere in \u2063the double digits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe think the \u200bnumber has dropped down into the double digits, so thank God,\u201d \u2063Green \u200bsaid in \u2062a video posted to X. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He responded to the new numbers by saying that exact numbers would take awhile to be complete. \u201cExact numbers are going to take time, perhaps a long time, to become finalized,\u201d he told the \u200bAssociated\u200b Press. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The brunt of the fire damage\u200b destroyed Lahaina,\u2063 where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/total-missing-after-maui-fires-remains-near-400-after-governor-indicated-number-might-drop-under-100\/\" title=\"Around 400 people are still missing after the Maui fires, despite the governor's suggestion that the number could decrease to less than 100.\">60 \u2062mph winds rapidly spread<\/a> the fire. The \u2062cause of the \u200bfire\u2063 is still being \u200cinvestigated, but some have blamed downed\u200c power \u2062lines for starting the blaze. Hawaiian Electric has said that \u200bfirefighters did not adequately \u200bput out an electrical fire that later reignited. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maui County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/maui-county-sues-hawaiian-electric-alleges-intentional-and-malicious-mismanagement-led-to-fires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged in\u2064 a lawsuit<\/a> that \u201cintentional and \u2064malicious\u201d mismanagement \u200dof power lines \u2063by Hawaiian Electric led to the deadly\u200b fires. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Identifying the Victims<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maui Police Department\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mauicounty.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=12798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicated<\/a> on Friday that they have been\u2064 able to\u200b identify\u200c 55 of the 115 victims. Fifty of\u200b the victims\u2019 \u2062families have been\u200c notified, while authorities \u200bare still\u2063 working to notify families of the other five. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police have requested help \u200bin\u2063 identifying both the missing and dead, asking the \u200bpublic to come forward\u200b with any relevant information. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1693504018745000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1RMMjCvCBOBYdpkw5O_njE\">CLICK HERE\u200b TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ \u2062APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>A Race Against Time<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you have a loved one that you know is missing\u2062 and you are a family\u2064 member, it\u2019s imperative \u200dthat \u200byou \u200bget a DNA \u2063sample,\u201d\u200d Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maui wildfires, which\u200c were \u200dsome of the worst\u2063 in American history, have led to a host of\u2063 scrutiny on Hawaiian officials who have\u2062 faced criticism for\u200c not\u200d broadcasting the emergency siren and for reportedly\u2064 blockading a road out of Lahaina due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-without-power-in-texas-energy-prices-climb\/\" title=\"Millions Without Power In Texas; Energy Prices Climb\">downed power lines<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Witnesses \u2063who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/maui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survived<\/a> the blaze\u2063 said\u200c that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report\/\" title=\"Maui fire survivors claim authorities blocked sole escape route from burning Lahaina: Report.\">traffic quickly backed<\/a> up\u200b as residents attempted to flee to the south, but the road was blocked as a crew \u200bworked on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfires-may-have-been-caused-by-downed-power-lines\/\" title=\"Possible cause of Maui wildfires: Downed power lines.\">downed \u200bpower lines<\/a>. One family ignored\u200d the barricade and swerved past the cones placed in the road, \u200dmaking\u2063 it safely \u200cto another town nearly an hour later. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The count of missing individuals from the Maui wildfires last month hovers around 400, despite Governor Josh Green&#8217;s expectation of it falling below 100. The FBI&#8217;s recent update reveals that 385 people are still unaccounted for following the destructive fires that ravaged Maui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2020305,"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-2020304","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\/2020304","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}