Hawaii wildfires: At least 80 killed in Maui - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2023
- Eighty people are now confirmed to have been killed by wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials say.
There are fears the numbers will rise further, as hundreds are still uncontactable.
Firefighters have been trying to contain fires in several areas, including the historic town of Lahaina which has been utterly devastated.
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I heard a local say that the problem happened because they rerouted all the natural water to the huge hotels & golf courses leaving the rest of the island unnaturally dry. Increased rains caused the grass to grow, followed by a drought exacerbated by the manmade rerouting of natural springs. But of course the regular news won't mention that. I hope this tragedy is analyzed & the problem corrected. We can't have this repeated.
They’ve been trying to create other industries to replace tourism but found it impossible. Live by the tourists, die by the tourists.
No water . No grass grows
Not true. They're saying that indigenous grasses from around the world had been invading for years and nothing was being done about it. It's the ignition of those that is attributed to the swift and uncontrollable spread but I'm sure we'll be given a more blame-worthy culprit that will allow the greediest to distance themselves from involvement.
No doubt this was caused by arsonists I hope they find them and punish them appropriately
Tragic 😥
I lived in Lahaina when I relocated to Hawaii 16 years ago. It is was a beautiful and special place that I will always hold in my heart. Prayers for all those affected by this tragedy.
God is angry coz free sex in there
This is the best news, the evil USA is getting what they serve other nations
Same goes for me, Lahaina is also my second home. Prayers for everyone ♥️
Better to make return since everything is cheap now. Make your holiday plans now when it's cheap!!!
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I’m on Oahu and we are all heart sick for our fellow islanders. God please help the people to recover their emotions and healthy psyches. Things can be replaced but a broken heart is damn hard to repair. Good neighbors, we are here for you. Heal well, with love.
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The lack or malfunctioning of a warning system is disturbing. We will find out about that in the coming days. But you would think the island would have a robust warning system in place, particularly because of tsunamis.
Exactly
@@cogama7846It all happened so fast, maybe the sirens became damaged? I've been in other disasters and pretty much immediately the cell networks go down, so this is a huge global tech issue. I also think communities around the world need a siren/megaphone system as we deal with climate issues. I was at a farmers market in Hawaii when the Ballistic missile warning came thru and 50 people got the message all at once. It turned out to be a simple employee mistake of a drop down menu at a shift change, but the only thing that had me thinking it wasn't real was that the sirens were not activated. They can be heard miles from the coastline.
The sirens were setup, for tsunamis, not wildfires. People suffer from lack of imagination, basing their emergency preparations only on past experience.
@@janefreeman995I remember that!
I'm looking at the news where's the Fire Departments etc and the Feds?
I don’t believe that these are wild fires, I think they were set
DEWs
Look up the definition of wildfire...
Now look up the definition of arson...
Combining the 2, simply because both relate to destructive fires, makes you look like a simpleton.
@@codymoe4986 arson now is it?? I thought it was power lines falling down from the high winds was the culprit?
Directed Energy Weapons did this. Not “wildfire”. Wake the hell up.
😂😂
Exactly.
I think about pets, wildlife and the homeless and my heart just breaks for them.
Mine didn't
Poor pets, at least the animals killed to feed them will get a few more days on earth.
I am feeling sorrow for Hawai.. From India ❤
Mahalo
Not enough to awaken humanity from its destructive ways. Nature one day will exact retribution and the toll will be of no return. There is still time to change. India's overpopulation and destruction will experience hundredfolds of Maui as Shiva the destroyer desires to depopulate India of its blasphemies, defile of nature, and arrogance to return to original order.
You don't know these people. A very exclusive community. They would never welcome you.
@@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428good point. Is it all asians there?
@@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428 Hawaii is very welcoming and is known for its huge tourism industry which welcomes travelers from all around the world. It's also known for having a very diverse population.
I wonder how many pets were killed. Sometimes, one,s pets are the only reason a person is able to manage to get through the day when a tragedy has occurred.
I had the same thought. If I didn’t have my Kitty, I am not sure what I do. I hope there is an effort to help displaced and injured pets
@@HRHDaviaTheYounger .... Hello there from Knoxville Tennessee USA & Thank you for your comment. Those scenes are unbelievable 😯.
And let's hope that any pets that are wandering around can be reunited with their family, provided they are ok & still on the island.
🐕💚🍕
@@dianamoore2241this is a good reminder of why it's important to have your pets chipped and collared, even at home.
I'm from the island of O'ahu myself, but have been living in the UK for over 9 years now....to see Lahaina just completely burned to the ground is just honestly surreal to me. All of the islands are beautiful tropical islands and I just am gobsmacked on how this happened and why our sirens didn't sound forcing people to jump into the ocean and tread water for hours watching the city burn down.....
Honestly I don't think they had time. It all happened so fast. I believe the whole town was gone in 17 minutes. It took everyone off guard.
I’m the opposite to you 😂 I am from Manchester but have lived in Hawaii for 23 years , I was part of the rebuild on big island a couple years ago when Kilauea Erupted. My crew and I will fly to Maui as soon as the Bio block has opened.
😂😂 what are you doing in the U.K 😂🇬🇧
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Fire chief wasn't in Maui..... Coincidence 😅
I am from California and now live in Kona, Big Island. I went through the terrible 1993 fire of Laguna beach where hundreds of structures burned and our sweet little town almost lost. We had more resources, preparation and an early warning system (literally fireman going door to door in neighborhoods) which is why our town wasn’t destroyed and why lives were not lost. I’m stunned by the possibility that the local Maui govt was not prepared enough. The entire island chain was in a red flag warning. Maui has been bone dry for a decade and ripe for wildfires. It seems an earlier notification warning/evacuation process could have saved lives. may God bless the families affected. My Eyes wide open now that I need a solid plan for my family just in case the same thing happens here in Kona.
They didn't have the resources or the time to give warning, geez.
@@heatherl.7909 I’m not trying to be negative but I’m so shocked bc there were already fires burning prior to this event. You would think given the crazy winds that the local govt would be extra prepared and watching.
@@olemontoyaHawaii islands do not have the resources nor the funding to properly handle these out of control fires. The conditions were perfect for this to happen.
@@corneilusdonaldson1858you sound just like Joe Biden. “Oh how awful, well, I went through that too only we fared much better than you because you were ill prepared and I wasn’t.” Will you stop? Enough time to blame and look to assign fault. Try shutting your fat cake hole and sending real help where you can. They need money. Send to the American Red Cross or an animal shelter and keep your “good luck” to yourself, why don’t you?
Hi how are you
I use to live on Maui and also in Lahaina back in the 70's and I can't find words to express my sorrow as to what happened!
I imagine that in a matter of months it will come to light that however many downed electrical poles there were, no matter how high the winds were, this level of loss, devastation and death should not have happened. This tragedy will be remembered as a confluence of errors reflecting a total lack of preparedness by local authorities. Lahaina is 200+ years old.... drought is no stranger to the islands nor are high winds. That's begs the question "Why now?" When was the last time we heard about 50-70 mph winds knocking down 29 or more electrical poles in any of these islands(that was the number I heard reported in a newscast)? I continue to observe as a 62-year-old that quality in every sector of life in our country has gone downhill in the last two decades. Anyone under the age of 45 probably won't even know what I'm talking about. You see it in manufacturing, you see it in customer service, you see it in healthcare (I recently saw an expose on poor or homeless people being escorted out of emergency rooms, untreated, to a corner just off hospital property and then just left there by security guards), people being dragged off of airplanes like common criminals simply because they don't jump out of their seat when they're told they can't be on that flight even though they had a reservation and paid for it... this was unheard of 20 years ago! Everything just seems to be spiraling down in quality. Remember the flooding in Kihei a few years ago? It turned out that it was due to critical drainage ditches that simply had not been maintained and kept clear of brush and debris and as a result the water couldn't drain properly from heavy rains and tremendous flooding occurred? Is it possible that these electricity poles should have been replaced/repaired/re secured quite a while ago and weren't? From what I heard on the news, yes these were high winds but they were not super high level winds like you would have if a hurricane passed over the island! 50-70+ mph winds, though damaging, is something Islanders are accustomed to but the fact that so many poles went down and thus, possibly caused the fire was perhaps an avoidable tragedy. Or the fact that a fire that had been put out earlier that day was not carefully monitored in the presence of high winds to make sure that it did not reignite which is not uncommon when fires are put out. And yet it wasn't monitored and it did reignite starting the fire that ended up wiping out the town of Lahaina. Not to mention the fact that the sirens weren't set off when they should have been. I hope, hope, hope I am wrong but I suspect that when everything is said and done, neglect will be revealed as it was with the deadly, yet avoidable, Paradise, CA fire several years ago...... a fire which by the way should have been a manual for reform in every county in the United States. Sadly, in the end, after blame is placed, lawsuits are filed, large amounts of money are paid out to the victims, in the end it's still the taxpayer who will have to pay for all of it, for people's negligence who should have taken greater care with their work and their responsibilities. None of it can make up for the devastation of this beautiful, historic town, the loss of homes and loved ones. We've got to do better. 😢
Wow! Who needs an investigation when when a random person on RUclips can figure it all out in an instant?
We now live in a world where a click is supposed to give a consumer whatever they want or need.
Y'all should have taught your children that a couple of generations ago.
Ppl now pride themselves on NOT helping ppl they think are considering themselves to be "entitled" wh includes every human being needing another warm body to help in order to survive, while not seeing themselves as being "entitled" when they refuse to do any work unless their employers pay them what they determine to be a "livable" wage.
@@enadegheeghaghe6369No disrespect intended and this idea was certainly not crafted in an instant as you said. I've been watching the reports carefully for 3 days and there are some specifics emerging that lend themselves to my comments.. I hope I am wrong but as someone who's lived on the islands for many years and seen storms pass over the islands with huge winds, generally, you don't have 29 downed poles that probably started a wildfire that wipes out a town that's been there for over a hundred years. Obviously, horrible as it is, arson would be easier to swallow. I'm just saying chances are likely but sadly, that probes and investigations will reveal neglect somewhere.
@@sunshineandwarmthentitlement is demanding enough pay to cover rent and food . Wow , how about that. I know you’d prefer every worker to live in China style workers dorms, with suicide nets installed so the workers have no escape , but this here is America .
Condolences to all those who have family and friends who lost their lives to this disaster.
Lahaina was attacked, this was no random disaster ! D.E.W.
By God..Revelation 8
I live on Oahu, even my house was super windy. My prayers to the people in Maui. The wind was just so strong, fueling the fire like throwing gas on it.
40 mph fire ,ppl can’t move that fast💔 middle of night at that 😢It could have happened to any of our islands . Super heartbreaking
Were you warned about the wind? Did everyone know there was windy weather on its way?
I'm glad you are OK and my sympathies to all those affected
maui ,,,,, YES DEW DID IT aka directed energy weapons which burns metal cars but not trees
💯@@danclark1364
@@teresahall8762yes, there was a category 4 hurricane passing a few hundred miles to the south of the island. It’s always windy when hurricane pass by. Lahaina is a small town surrounded by a bunch of dry brush and a lot of buildings made of wood. And all the islands have been in a drought for over a year now. This combined with bad infrastructure and power lines falling and sparking the fires. The whole town was like a tinder box.
I am so very sorry for your loss.
I hope Maui can rebuild with clear designated evacuation routes with signage, underground utilities and a functioning communication system. Being an Island puts residents and visitors at risk for Lahar, Tsunami, fire disasters.
United SnaKKKes of Ku Klux KKKolonizers need to leave Hawaii, they want independence
@@johngalt5602 that's my fear. That the wealthy and corporations will use this as an opportunity to buy up land on the cheap. I hope the local govt makes a law to prevent the wealthy from buying up the land using this tragedy to further exploit the local people and natives
This 'your loss' statement is strange, given the fact that the whole world is getting effected by Global Climate Change..it's 'our loss'...
what you listed has nothing to do with the fires
@@jerryakamuadams6399the big corporations make the laws now!
100% by design.This was allowed to happen to get rid of the riff raff.Wake up people, we are at war.
The shaved ice, the whalers locker, the kava kava bar, the carvers in the alley on front street, nothing can erase these joyous memories of my time there… how could I forget the museum, the banyan tree, the Maui gold store, and the submarine tours will forever be missed!
Prayers for the folks of Maui, I love your aloha spirits and I pray that it remains in tact!
I had my ticket with delta to stay in Kaanapali for the 15th of August and it’s sad I can’t visit but I’m here in essence everyday checking in on y’all and wondering how to help genuinely!
Pioneer Bar…
Direct energy weapons! They are real! Houses were destroyed totally by very high temperatures, but trees are still green?? How is this possible???
Trees are green? Most of the trees either burned down or are totally black, i.e. dead. Only a few survived. But so did some houses.
Not all trees burn at same rate. Also depends if the trees are healthy or dead and dry etc. Trees were burned or scorched.
Firewood needs to be seasoned in order to burn easily. You ever try to light wood for a fire and have a hell of a time getting it started and going?
Prayers from New Jersey !
My heart breaks for these people affected by the fires. It’s gonna be a long road to recovery. Sending prayers to all of Hawaii 💔😥🙏🙏🙏
Shit people send them $$$$... Get a fund me page up and running....
send real help, prayers do nothing
@@kotexconnection3804How do you know prayers do nothing?
@@kotexconnection3804 are you gonna send real help
Prayers is bullshit
The fact that firefighters did not know the hurricane winds were coming is complacency. The fact that maui has little fire fighting abilities is complacency. Hawaii is know for lax approach to wildfires letting them burn huge areas on big island in the past now this.. completely avoidable if officials were paying attention!!😢
A downed powerline onto tinder dry grass.. Its always very windy in Hawaii , i guess they never thought this would happen, but wooden homes should be banned..Brick built structures or it will happen again.
@@hendriekevin4171 This is total system failure.
Patrick big island wild fires is mainly just open lava fields and no homes and buildings near… no comparison.. and no one expected this to happen as it has not happened in Maui like this. U can’t put blame on them, power was out cell service was out it happened so fast . Fire was moving 40 miles an hour from winds being 70.. even if this happened in California or any other dry place I believe same outcome would happen… hopefully when they rebuild it’s more fire proof :( my heart goes out to my neighbor island this could of happened to our island too.. very dry. Middle of night and to think so many didn’t make it out 💔
@@ariag.8745We actually are very prepared for Tsunamis and flood inundation, as well as nuclear attacks, the siren covers all three and is tested monthly at 11:45 AM. Hawaii is not “lax” with any disaster.
@@ariag.8745
You somehow managed to turn a tragedy of Lahaina Town into a babbling left wing rant about a mask that never helped stopped a thing.
Do the right thing and pray for the residents and better yet, make sure to donate your fair share.
Aloha.
Good god! Last I checked it was 55! Now it’s 80! I’m still praying 🙏🏽 for them!
it will be more than 100
@@Rod732 way more than 100!!
Yeah this number is the official confirmed number. Close to a thousand are not accounted for and that's not a good sign at this point. My Nephew went back in to save the animals and said the heat was literally melting everything before the fire even got to the house, then he had to drive past a lot of burning bodies to escape to safety as the whole property went up. I think there will be many hundred confirmed dead in the coming weeks as they identify remains.
Why would you pray to an omniscient god who already knows what you're praying to him about?
Not enough to awaken humanity from its destructive ways. Nature one day will exact retribution and the toll will be of no return. There is still time to change.
So much love from South Africa
This wasn't natural
Praying for all in Mau.
No evacuation plan no evacuation notice? Everyone in shear panic? No boats coming for rescue nothing from another place of the island? No tourist helicopter, boats rendering assistance? No alert to get to the island from other islands for assistance? Sad just sad letting these people down
Very sad indeed 😢 prayers from Canada 🇨🇦 🙏 🇺🇸
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Deepest condolences to those who has lost their lives and all the best to those who suffered from such tragedy. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Perhaps if they stopped setting the "wildfires" using Low Orbit Satelites ?
My heart breaks for Hawaii, Lahaina, and all those families. Especially all the lives lost and the number that will grow. I spent my senior trip in Mauii and Lahaina with my girlfriend many years ago. Such fond memories.
Ihr Name hört sich deutsch an...Mit Freundlichen Grüßen, Bedenkenträger Peter Heinz Kamillo Roigk...ask Godemann too ...how much deaths he caused as that GrimMER...too .but ...
Hawaii is a magical place! I have young nieces and nephews in Paradise and Santa Rosa, California, other beautiful places, who lost their homes and possessions to fire. As the world continues to rapidly heat up, more towns and cities will burn.
How are you doing today? You've a very nice and attractive profile picture on your profile I can't stop looking at your profile picture 😎🤓. Can we have a private conversation
@freeheeler09 The climate will always change. It's not static. It's dynamic as the orbit of the earth around sun. Closer and further. A comet impact can cause an ice age. Once Antarctica was covered in forests and there was no ice during the Era of dinosaurs.
@@christopherpeninger324 How do you breathe with your head in the sand?
Praying my everyone. My friends son lived there and was caught in the fire. He made it and is now home here in Washington State. So scary!
This is So tragic in every way .. Prayers to All those effected by this catastrophic event....
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This is terribly sad BUT this is arson NOT wildfire.
Doesn't seem so. Also arsonists cause wildfires, they're not incompatible.
@@soundscape26 Unfortunately Maui has a history of arson attacks. Understand your point re arson leading to wildfire. I'm also sensitive to this being used as some sort of "climate change" narrative by the bbc who are desperate to prove that things are a degree or so warmer, hence causing land to spontaneously combust....
Because a wildfire is always started by an arsonist?
Words have definitions, learn them, and apply them appropriately....
@@codymoe4986 awwww I think you missed my point entirely sweetie. No matter, you carry on.
Look people did not even have time to get in their cars and flee thats how fast.
I’ve read that the initial report of a fire came at midnight, several hours before the 6:30 am spread though..
Gosh, every time I see these images I cry.
Just like Paradise California fire. Strangely was born and raised in Paradise until I moved to Lahaina, 1 year before the fire. Luckily lived outside of Lahaina for some time but still worked there everyday up until now, two of my hometowns are gone and workplace. Just thankful to be alive and everyone I know too. I pray for anyone going through it and sorry for the lives lost. Fires are relentless. May all Paradise recover.
No words 😢
I mean where do you even start?
Never in my life have I seen wildfires that burn all the houses and cars, but leave all the trees
Ain’t nuthin but a DEW thing
Source?
Research Weather manipulation technology HAARP
@@toldyouso7323Stop reading comic books. They have got you believing some really silly shit.
Unbelievable 😭😭 Absolutely horrific, heartbreaking and devastating 😭😭
Hawaii is my home state. Since this is international, more history is that guests such as Mark Twain, Jack London, Jacqueline Kennedy stayed at the historic Pioneer Inn. It was the original capitol of the Hawaiian Kingdom. A cultural center is also gone. Monetary donations are of course essential and l hope those with private collections of Hawaiian and Polynesian artifacts will consider making offerings when the time is right. The scope of this tragedy is at this moment is unimaginably difficult to hold. Hawaii has one of the most sophisticated warning systems due to the possibility if tsunamis, but it all moved so fast it was not activated and what remains to be seen is it could have been damaged as well. The winds were teice as strong as what is suggested here in gusts.
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I live on Oahu and this is beyond anything I couldve imagined, I pray for those on maui who lived through these horrific events I couldnt even begin to imagine what kind of terrifying experience it was
Last January, there was a Smart City Conference in Maui to turn it into a complete 15-minute smart city island. A contract was signed last year to build high-rise condos and businesses in Lahaina which was a historical town that couldn’t have any new development done to it… but now It can. An executive order was signed in July stating they could take your land if you needed to be relocated.
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Thankyou for speaking facts, this was a landgrab.
Very heartbreaking 😢
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@@kenbristow6771 and where from this man?
@@ericgyamfi please learn to express yourself grammatically properly, at least in your native tongue 😂
@@kenbristow6771 Habibi gyae gyimie no and learn some sense ok . Am not a grammarian
@@ericgyamfi you seem to lack much more than that 😂
RIP Very sad to hear this news😢
My deepest condolences to all the families who have lost their loved ones. May their soul rest in peace😢
Who did it? This isn’t natural and the people there said the government wants their land? They said someone did this? Can you report and investigate these allegations because that would be horrible!
DEW
💯 it’s a land grab, just like paradise California. DEW or arson, not natural causes. Governor of Hawaii already taking about rebuilding new Lahaina with billions of fed money (ie black rock etc). So obvious to those with eyes to see.
It's been reported repeatedly that the Lahaina fire is the deadliest natural disaster ever in Hawai'i. Although this is not a competition, it should be reported accurately. In April of 1946, a tsunami took the lives of 159 people in all of Hawai'i. In the town of Hilo alone, 96 lives were lost. I hope we never see fatality numbers like that again. I ache for Lahaina and its people.
This is a tiny fraction of the death toll the government will wait until out of national spotlight to stop from scaring away tourist
The keyword is that this is the deadliest disaster since Hawaii became a state in 1959. That’s why people are saying it’s the deadliest in the STATE’s history.
I doubt that these reporters are actually making that distinction. They are repeating what they heard. There is no reason to draw that line. Governor Green made the same mistake before Lahaina's number passed Hilo's 61 fatalities in 1960, which was after statehood.
Pretty sure I've read that distinction in multiple news reports....STATE history.
But of course you think the media isn't capable of that. They aren't nearly as snart as you are!
It's just sickening what's happened in beautiful Maui. I'm hoping and praying the death toll doesn't continue to rise. I've sent what I can afford, but it seems so insignificant. I wish I could do more. ❤🙏🏽
People like Bezos, Musk, Gates and Buffet could stand up, but they won't.
Thank you so so much🩵
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@@kenbristow6771 WTF are you even trolling about? No, nevermind.
@@GNMi79 FEMA is not the only choice. Just make sure whatever fund for Maui you (or others) send money to has a .gov at the end to avoid scammers (yeah I know ".gov" and "avoid scammers" is almost an oxymoron) - or at least verify the organization is legitimate. Don't even trust "GoFundMe" pages because they rarely verify their pages.
Residents received little to no warning because the fire was driven by gale force winds, which ignited the fire by knocking over power lines in the first place. With winds like that, fires can travel over grasslands at above highway speeds, and Maui isn't a big island.
Absolutely devastating for the people, animals fauna
and lives lost. Even the birds no trees or seed This is a time to find much strength. I'm from Australia and fully understand the impact this has
Blessings and prayers all. love Australia
How does a city like Lahaina, situated on the coast burn? Not a lack of water I would think. Many industrial cities on the great lakes have high capacity water systems pumping water out of the great lakes into high capacity fire hydrants to fight fires. What about the NAVY? NAVY ships fight fires, don't they? Pearl Harbor 100 miles away.
The area lost electrical power due to the high wind, like 80 mph or higher gust. The Maui Fire Dept. fought multiple fires on the island, not just in the Lahaina area. Not enough firefighters, equipment, and water to save Lahaina.
I don't think you have any idea how big this fire was or how bad the drought conditions on the island has been or how much the nearby hurricane fanned the flames with strong winds
Are you saying this was deliberate?
And where are the lakes in Hawaii? Also, this happened super fast by the time the ships got there there wouldn't be much left to do.
Ah yes. Those speedboat, firefighting naval vessels, that can cover 100 miles of ocean waters, at a moment's notice, and douse wildfires, miles inland...
Do you clowns even think before you post this nonsense?
Those fireproof trees are amazing!!! 🤩
The Banyan Tree is fireproof too. Cause it has 4-5 layers, and there’s no oil in the trunks like a pine or a maple.
Morons making comments I see!!! Your heart is rotting from its core.
YUP ! Must be Asbestos Trees !
Most are gone or standing but dead.
Tex. Sad Situation. So Much Devastation.
My heart goes out but so far I haven’t yet heard how these fires started and I never saw any firefighters. Is there no fire departments there?
So tragic. My thoughts and prayers for all the people there.
who's the jerk who started the fire?
Nobody it seems
@@hermicruz9937 If you know of someone come forward and tell the authorities.
This is horrific. But to say it’s “the worst disaster that Hawaii has ever experienced” has a short memory.🇺🇸🇺🇸
The STATE of Hawaii, has never experienced a worse natural disaster, in terms of death, has it?
@@codymoe4986True. Hawaii wasn’t a state until 1959. The “official” death count of Pearl Harbor is 2,403. God forbid this disaster killed that many but it’s possible.😢
I'm not sure that Hawaii was thought of as being very fire-prone like California is. Sadly, that has changed now. My condolences to the friends and families of the victims.
What? This has happened for decades and decades on an almost 2 year cycle...
Nothing has changed..
Exactly
Dude, the entire thing is literally an active volcano. 🤔
That area of Maui is extremely dry compounded by large sections of land that used to be pineapple fields which have become vast tinderbox fields.
I really don't know how emergency management could've preemptively responded to a "perfect storm" scenario they didn't believe could ever happen? And how would the residence have responded to a precautionary evacuation order?
@@HeyCurtis
The Volcano is sleeping. 😴
Not the cause of this wildfire.
I have no words...how did this happened so fast and uncontrolled.
We grew up in the Pacific islands Panay island, Philippines)full of Volcanoes and 20+ hurricanes/year. This never happened.
This is so heartbreaking 😢😭😭😭
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This is a terrible tragedy, but was entirely preventable. Environmental scientists in Hawaii have been warning for years that old pineapple plantations, mostly on State and Federal lands -- private owners were forced to remediate their land while governments did nothing with the lands entrusted to them -- were becoming tinderboxes of overgrown dried brush and non-native grasses. Their calls for clearing it were ignored, and now the neglect and incompetence of local, state and federal governments is laid bare, and the chickens have come home to roost -- or more appropriately, to be BBQ'd. When this entirely preventable disaster did strike, emergency services and infrastructure were completely unprepared and uncoordinated, and communication was non-existent. This has nothing to do with 'climate change,' and everything to do with land-use change and government incompetence at all levels. Now is a time to mourn, but soon it will be a time of righteous anger and accountability. I hope.
@steve I suspect the same. I keep coming back to the fact that the media is saying strong winds and drought, strong winds and drought. But the island has experienced drought before and the island has experienced high winds before along with drought. So why was the situation different now? Si I have to agree with you, and I think we're going to see a confluence of several significant factors most of which will point to negligence, incompetence and as someone commented here earlier......complacency at the city and state level. Just a total lack of preparedness as well as conditions (perhaps electric poles have not been properly maintained over the last 20 years and this is why so many of them fell more than likely creating the fire?) that are a direct result of neglect.
Seeding the atmosphere with barium and aluminum oxide has consequences! Aluminum oxide is very flammable!
Iv watched the documentary-THE DIMMING. Agreed
2 days ago that number was under 20 so sad
My deepest condolences to all the families that lost a loved one.
"WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY!" Now we are paying the price
@_PattonWasRight: So nazi death camps were okay with you?
Who was the wrong enemy, and whats this got to do with a wildfire ?
@@hendriekevin4171
Ditto.
God bless you all. I am from Aus and we have seen this before. Nothing could stop it. Thoughts and Prayers with our USA Brothers and Sisters.
Hawaii is not part of US
So, so sad 💔😢💔😢🥺🥺💔😢. And to those who perished in the fire, may all they rest in peace 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Good news from gringorcland and angloreptilia - droughts, wild fires out of control, crumbling infrastructure, city centres out of control, mass shootings, and general ignorance. Keep on entertaining the world 😂
How can buildings be turned into 2 inches of white powder standing next to trees with leaves on them?
I am sending prayers and blessings to everyone in Hawaii 🙏🙏❤❤
So nothing, WTF are prayers and blessings going to do? Absolutely nothing..
@@johnhines1336 you need to go to church then you would know prayers and blessings help 🙏
@@tinahardy5808 You need to read the bible to see it doesn't' have anything to do with the USA and basically every actual country in the world. Nothing about the fires near Hawaii in a bible and a non god thing has done nothing as it doesn't and never has existed and the USA is just proof and evidence of this.
There is no way to warn people about a fireball traveling that fast. Everyone got trapped. The lucky ones barely escaped. Lines and trees already littered the roadways, preventing many from escaping. My house on the mountain got hit by my 100ft tall trees coming down in 80 mph wind gusts. One of the fires is one mile above me and the copters are still dumping water on it as I type this. Lucky to be alive. The entire island is in mourning.
I’ve lived in Hawaii since 1970. There are far too many abominable comments on this tread. Where is your compassion? Where is your Aloha spirit? 😢
If there is an out of control fire you should not need a warning 🙏🏾
Does that mean you are holding the victims responsible for their losses?
@@sunshineandwarmth no I’m holding that island and officials responsible they should’ve sounded the system and you see the JA had resigned
My deepest condolances to the loved ones lost in this tragic wild fire. It is very sad to see such devestation and I hope we can prevent this to never happen again.
It was done on purpose to rebuild a smart city
@@Xyleryx Yep that is correct, a 15 min city or C40 which is the real name. Same kind of fire as was done to Paradise CA.
@@XyleryxShameful
@@alexdieci4609 Direct energy weapons. why is only the rich land burned? Why is Jeff Bezos and Opera coming to the rescue to buy the burned land that they've been trying to buy since 2012? Hurricane winds blow inland not towards the ocean
Good news from gringorcland and angloreptilia - droughts, wild fires out of control, crumbling infrastructure, city centres out of control, mass shootings, and general ignorance. Keep on entertaining the world 😂
I've been sort of a life long amatuer historian of World War II for half a century. The war in the Pacific especially interest me. One tactics the American Army Airforce ended up using near the end of the war was fire bombing huge tracks of entire cities with incinerator bombs at extremely low altitude under general Curtis LeMay. 5000 feet or so.
One evening, he ordered the fire bombing of Tokyo Japan. 11 square miles of downtown Tokyo were reduced ro ashes. Estimates range from 120,000 to 200,000 killed.
Stories written by Japanese civilians who survive the fire storm wrote of winds exceeding 120 mph as the fires created their own winds sucking up air from every direction. One fire fighter wrote of an account where a Japanese woman was running for her life towards a river, baby in hand, when she was swept off her feet into the air and burst into flames being sucked into a building.
When I saw the video of what happened here, I think it gave me a more vivid sense of what these types of fires really do.
55 the other day 64 or something yesterday now over 80. Please stop rising. But unfortunately it won't if there's still missing people.
Living in the US we appreciate your thoughts and prayers from the other side of the pond.
God bless people in Maui 🙏🙏🙏
Apparently, he didn't.
Aloha & much LOVE from Alberta Canada❤️🇨🇦🌺🇨🇦❤️
My condolences to the families of the wonderful people of Lahaina, Maui & Hawai'i, may God take the deceased into his mercy, and grant patience to their families
So very sorry
Heartbreaking! Tears and prayers for those who lost so much.
Hi how are you
Please know that we pray for you… GODBLESS YOU…🙏🙏🙏
I’m so sorry for your loss 🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕💕😭
By wildfires, you mean fires caused by direct energy weapons.
Weather warfare all intentional
Brilliant. Can you prove that? If so inform the authorities.
' inform the authorities.' 😆🤣😆 🤣🤣
Absolutely heartbreaking. Praying for the people of Maui right now, although I wish I could do more.
This is so sad and so horrible. I have wonderful memories of visiting Lahaina in 2019. It's so hard to belive that it's all gone, all that history that will never come back along with the personal tragedies.
Geoff giving 100million like its a £20 donation. Its a kind gesture but imagine having that kind of money to play with .
The $100M probably helps organizations give immediate aid while the useless politicians sit on their ass and vote about what/if to do. The government wasn't even able to do an effective evacuation ffs
While what you're saying is 100% true, I will ask the logical follow question which is have you donated $20 yet? Because if everyone does that then a lot can be done
@@ItsYaBoiKC The bigger question is how much of that $100 million will make it to the people as for remember that stupid charity will have "administration" fees and an overpaid CEO to pay so they'll keep like 60%. 😑😑
At least he's putting it towards a good cause as opposed to buying Nazi memorabilia.
Jeff's generosity may inspire other billionaires who own Hawaii properties to donate publicly or anonymously. Let's hope the donations reach the local people and rebuild the community affected by this devastating fire.
God bless and comfort these poor souls🙏🏼 prayers from NW Fl panhandle
Apparently, god didn't bless.
I’m so sorry! 💔😭🙏
This was NOT A WILDFIRE. I am from Maui, NOT A WILDFIRE.
Agree this the same what happened in Paradise in California research weather manipulation technology HAARP and Chemtrails
@@toldyouso7323 Oh please... not that crap again.
Please elaborate then.
It is only a human-made fire to the extent that we are destroying our environment by ignoring and denying global climate change, which WE have caused!
THIS WAS A DEW. D i r e c t E n e r g y W e a p o n.
We stayed in Oahu last year on the eastern residential side. One thing that immediately struck as as Californians is that you had one street to get to Honolulu. If something happened, that road would be congested and you’d be stuck there with no way out. We felt claustrophobic and agreed we wouldn’t stay there again. Absolutely devastating for these people.
That is exactly why I have no desire to visit Hawaii!!
Yes, Hawaii was never built for the amount of people who have relocated here. Many of our roads do have not alternate routes. When we had our Waimea rock slide in 2000, folks had to circle the entire island to get to a location on the other side of Waimea Bay.
So sorry for the devastating loss. Sending thoughts and prayers for the living. Sending Condolences for the dead. 🌈❤️🙏🏾
Deepest Condolence to those who lost their lives🙏
Anybody found the arsonists yet BBC ?
There doesn't seem to be any.
Praying 🙏🏾 in the name of Jesus!!!😢Have MERCY 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Apparently, "Jesus" isn't having any mercy.
Reminds me of the Famous San Francisco Earthquake or Famous Chicago Fire that wiped out those entire towns around the 1900's
From Milwaukee, WI my ❤ and tears went out to you our beloved victims of the fires 🔥 burst in Hawaii. Pray the helps will come as soon as possible. My God comfort you in every which ways!❤
Don't care
Oprah needs to open her home and property to the Native Hawaiians!! Afterall, it's their nation!!
That will never happened
Just like Hawaii needs to open its doors to the illegals flooding the southern boarder. Mazie Hirono wants it.
She’s there helping!!! You’re sitting at home and probably haven’t done squat to help, except posting negative comments.
@@samuelhunt7693exactly what I was thinking and probably won't even donate a $1
Why is it always the folks with the biggest hearts that do nothing ...but have plenty of advice on what others should do ....smh
Literally a flaming hurricane. Absolutely nuts. Geez…